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Japanese high school closes its cafeteria, replaces it with a 7-Eleven convenience store

• Oona McGee
  Jun 6, 2026
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The first time a 7-Eleven has opened inside a high school in Japan.

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• (7-Eleven • 7-Eleven Japan • convenience stores • cool • high school • Japanese convenience stores • Japanese high school • Japanese schools • Japanese students • kochi • schools • student life • students)

The top 12 incomprehensible school rules, as chosen by high school students

• Oona McGee
  May 16, 2026

Plus some surprising extra requirements, like having to say “thank you” at least 10 times a day. 

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• (high school • high school girls • high school in Japan • high school students • Japanese schools • Japanese students • school • school rules • schools • society • students • youth)

Nagasaki high school students collab with sweets veteran to release carrot nama dorayaki

• Krista Rogers
  Apr 28, 2026

Students let a local agricultural product shine by partnering with a 215-year-old sweets maker for a new take on a classic Japanese treat.

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• (Beni Tenjin • carrots • COK • development • dorayaki • high school • Isahaya • Nagasaki • new product • Sugitani Honpo • sweets • youth)

Eastern Japan high school graduating class’s wallets robbed during ceremony

• Master Blaster
  Mar 17, 2026

When the grads are up, the guard is down.

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• (ceremonies • crime • graduation • hare no hi goto • high school • robbery • theft • utsunomiya)

The top 10 graduation songs in Japan as chosen by current Japanese high school students

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 13, 2026

From covers of classics to altogether newer songs, these are the melodies that Japanese youth associate with graduation in this current Reiwa age.

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• (graduation • high school • sakura • Shibuya Trend Research • songs • spring • survey • Top Ten)

Japanese teenagers have impossible, inspiring picks for who they want next prime minister to be

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 14, 2025

One top pick has no chance, and another has nothing but potential.

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• (COK • high school • politicians • politics • prime minister • students • survey • teenagers • teens • youth)

Abandoned school being used for foreign tourists to experience Japanese high school in Chiba

• Master Blaster
  May 23, 2025

Relive high school for the first time.

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• (anime • CAMPiece • Chiba • culture • declining population • high school • Japan experiences • Kimitsu City • travel)

Japan’s Rental High School Student Project is more wholesome than it sounds, good for its community

• Casey Baseel
  May 19, 2025

Program creates connections and offers help for senior citizens.

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• (COK • high school • high school students • moving • senior citizens • seniors • society • students • teens • touching • youth)

The number of entrance exam takers at a top public high school in Okayama falls short, all pass

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 26, 2025

The lower-than-usual number of students points to both population-based and educational trends reflective of many other areas of the country. 

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• (cram school • entrance exam • high school • jukensei • juku • Okayama • pass • private • public • school • students)

Diving into the 2024 JC & JK Buzzword Award nominations for trendy Japanese slang and more

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 2, 2024

We take a closer look at some of the entries selected by Gen Z and Gen Alpha Japanese schoolgirls and suddenly feel very old.

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• (2024 Buzzword Awards • high school • Instagram • JCJK • JK • junior high school • language • linguistics • slang • social media • teenagers • trends)

Survey shows drop in Japanese highschoolers who’ve kissed someone, girls still more experienced

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 5, 2024

Number of high schoolers who’ve kissed or lost their virginity drops to half of early-2000s peak.

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• (high school • Kiss • kissing • relationships • romance • society • survey • teens • youth)

Public high school in Japan’s Gifu Prefecture will no longer take student absences into account for entrance applications

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 26, 2024

Board of Education doesn’t want students to be penalized for times when missing school is necessary.

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• (COK • education • entrance exams • Gifu • health • high school • schools • society • youth)

All-Japan Pillow Fighting Tournament brings fun and games to onsen town【Photos】

• Oona McGee
  Jan 25, 2024

The one place in Japan where pillow fighting is a competitive sport.

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• (COK • cool • fun • high school • high school students • ito • Japanese schools • pillow fight • pillow fighting • Pillow tournament • Shizuoka • Shizuoka Prefecture • sport • students • weird)

Tokyo makes high school free for all families, even the rich ones

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 7, 2023

Even public high schools charge tuition in Japan, but that’s going to be ending soon in the nation’s largest city.

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• (COK • education • high school • schools • society • students • Tokyo)

Survey finds obesity rates fell, but eyesight worsened among Japanese schoolchildren

• Shannon
  Jul 23, 2022

Don’t take P.E. for granted ever again, kids.

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• (elementary school • eyesight • high school • Japanese schools • Japanese students • junior high school • obesity • obesity in Japan • obesity rates • Smartphones • Surveys • trends)

Sega begins Puyo Puyo Boot Camp to help bring eSports into more Japanese high schools

• Master Blaster
  Apr 26, 2022

A place where kids can learn their power chains from their stairs.

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• (esports • high school • Puyo Puyo • Puyo Puyo Boot Camp • school activities • school sports • Sega • sports • video games)

Blackboards in the west, hallways in the north: Japanese school layouts spark discussion online

• Oona McGee
  Mar 30, 2022

Are all Japanese schools designed the same way???

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• (architecture • buildings • design • elementary school • high school • Japanese schools • Japanese students • junior high school • schools • students • twitter)

Japan is opening a video gaming/e-sports high school, and the idea isn’t as crazy as it sounds

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 24, 2021

Starting next spring, going to school is going to mean going to Shibuya to play games for some Tokyo teens.

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• (awesome • cool • e-sports • education • high school • kids • pro gaming • schools • video games • weird • youth)

We search for virtual love in brand new dating sim Tokimeki Memorial: Girls’ Side 4

• Katy Kelly
  Nov 4, 2021

Cheer on our Japanese-language reporter Ikuna in her quest to bag a fictional boyfriend!

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• (dating games • high school • Ikuna Kamezawa • romance • romance simulators • SNJO • tokimeki memorial • Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side • video games)

Wakayama man stealing uniform from school caught by mysterious man in restroom in middle of night

• Master Blaster
  Jun 21, 2021

There’s a very thin line between lurking and guarding.

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• (crime • high school • mystery • restroom • School Uniforms • theft • Wakayama)

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