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Teacher stares down bear at school in Japan, saving students from harm

• Oona McGee
  Aug 21, 2025
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The glare of a vice-principal is enough to make a bear run away.

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• (bear sighting • bears • Iwate • japanese school • junior high school • news • schools • students • Teachers)

Elementary and junior high students speak out on Japan’s strangest school rules

• Elliot Hale
  Jun 21, 2025

Underwear must be a certain color, or if in gym class, removed entirely.

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• (COK • crazy • dress code • education • elementary school • hair color • Japanese education system • Japanese elementary schools • Japanese junior high schools • japanese school • Japanese school uniforms • junior high school • kids • school rules • schools • society • students • survey • underwear • weird • youth)

Japanese junior high students make air freshener from stink bugs

• Master Blaster
  Jan 27, 2025

Not all stink bugs…

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• (air freshener • bugs • cool • insects • junior high school • kamemushi • science • stink bugs • weird)

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)

Junior high principal in Hyogo fired for stealing seven half cups of coffee

• Master Blaster
  Feb 2, 2024

One sip over the line, sweet Jesus. One sip over the line…

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• (coffee machine • convenience stores • crime • Hyogo • junior high school • principals • theft)

Foreign English teacher in Japan calls student’s ability garbage, says it was an “American joke”

• Oona McGee
  Dec 31, 2023

Teacher reprimanded for inappropriate remarks towards junior high school student.

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• (English conversation • English education • English education in Japan • english language • English language education • japanese education • Japanese schools • Japanese students • junior high school • learning English • schools • Studying English • Teachers • teaching • Teaching English in Japan)

Sports-playing Japanese junior high students at an all-time low, survey finds

• Shannon
  Nov 14, 2022

Expert says it’s high time to revise the system.

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• Japan
• (bukatsu • compulsory • Japanese schools • Japanese sports • junior high school • news • sports)

1 in 20 Japanese junior high school students regularly missing school, government study finds

• Krista Rogers
  Nov 2, 2022

The number of truant elementary and junior high school students in Japan is also the highest ever recorded.

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• (attendance • COVID-19 • elementary school • junior high school • MEXT • skip school • study • truancy)

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)

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)

Osaka’s new remote-learning policy leaves teachers strained and forces students to go to school

• Ingrid Tsai
  May 15, 2021

Logistical mishaps and contradicting guidelines hinder what could be one of the best ways to lower COVID-19 community transmission.

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• (board of education • coronavirus • COVID-19 • education • elementary school • Japanese schools • junior high school • middle school • Osaka • public health • schools • society • technology)

Nagoya man arrested for stealing piano covers from schools for reasons unknown to all

• Master Blaster
  Oct 26, 2020

Suspect will hopefully also be charged with mental anguish for not telling us why.

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• (burglary • crime • junior high school • Nagoya • piano covers • strange • theft • wtf)

Japanese student’s “drug dealer” English gaffe confuses foreign ALT

• Oona McGee
  Sep 11, 2020

Assistant Language Teacher quickly learns that Japanese doesn’t always translate properly into English.

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• (ALT • assistant language teacher • English • english language • funny • junior high school • language learning • school • students • teaching • Teaching English in Japan • twitter)

Japanese government promises reduced teacher responsibilities, right to refuse club supervision

• Katy Kelly
  Sep 11, 2020

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology says that in three years teachers might get their holidays to themselves.

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• (clubs • education • extracurricular activities • junior high school • MEXT • schools • society • Teachers • teaching • youth)

Japanese students learn English with help from a dating sim artist

• Oona McGee
  Apr 10, 2020

Studying is much more exciting when you can imagine yourself dating one of the textbook characters.

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• (anime • dating simulators • deep learning • Japanese students • junior high school • learning English • LovePlus • romance games • schools • students • Textbooks • video • video games)

Kumamoto teacher suspended for slapping student on the head and kicking him for 35 minutes

• Dale Roll
  Apr 4, 2020

But critics say that’s not a good enough punishment.

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• (conflict • controversy • Corporal punishment • junior high school • suspension • teacher • violence)

20-something Japanese woman takes junior high boy to hotel for lewd activity, gets off with fine

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 4, 2019

Internet chats lead to illegal rendezvous.

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• (COK • crime • hotel • junior high school • Kobe)

Japanese junior high schooler worries everyone with attempt to traverse America by hitchhiking

• Koh Ruide
  Feb 20, 2019

Adults worked tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure his safety.

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• (America • dreams • Japanese Twitter • junior high school • travel • youth)

Japanese junior high school student comes up with ingenious way to bypass iPad usage restriction

• Koh Ruide
  Oct 29, 2018

Kids these days are just too clever for their own good.

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• (clever • ipad • Japanese Twitter • junior high school • student)

Boy threatens to stab school staff forcing elementary students to wear Giorgio Armani uniforms

• Koh Ruide
  Apr 30, 2018

Threatening to cut people up with a knife is not the best way to go about airing frustrations.

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• (crime • elementary school • Ginza • Japanese Police • junior high school • threats)

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