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The top 12 incomprehensible school rules, as chosen by high school students
- Oona McGee
May 16, 2026 - Tweet
Plus some surprising extra requirements, like having to say “thank you” at least 10 times a day.
- Japan
- (high school • high school girls • high school in Japan • high school students • Japanese schools • Japanese students • school • school rules • schools • society • students • 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.
- Japan
- (cram school • entrance exam • high school • jukensei • juku • Okayama • pass • private • public • school • students)
Tokyo governor wants to start study abroad grant system, includes monthly activity allowance
- Casey Baseel
Jan 15, 2025
Proposal comes as fewer young Japanese people are showing interest in going overseas.
- Japan
- (academics • COK • internationalism • school • society • study abroad • Tokyo • youth)
Japanese samurai randoseru backpack lets you carry the bushido spirit with you wherever you go
- Oona McGee
Nov 5, 2024
Award-winning warrior knapsack now available for sale.
- Japan
- (art • backpacks • bags • Bushido • cool • craftsmanship • cute • fashion • Katsushika Hokusai • leather • Murase Kabanko • randoseru • samurai • school • students • Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji • ukiyoe • unique)
Go back to school with new Japanese randoseru backpacks featuring Pikachu and Eevee locks
- Krista Rogers
Feb 20, 2024
Stylish school satchels with a distinctive Poké-flair can now be preordered for soon-to-be Pokémon trainers and students.
- Japan
- (anime • backpacks • bags • COK • Eevee • elementary school • fashion • Pikachu • Pokemon • randoseru • school • video games)
Junior high in Yamaguchi in turmoil after student’s tablet records teachers’ room conversation
- Master Blaster
Nov 19, 2022
Tech tattled on touchy teacher talk.
Petition started to stop forcing students to cheer for their high school baseball teams
- Master Blaster
Jul 18, 2022
Root, root, root for the home team…or else.
- Japan
- (baseball • education • high school baseball • Japan Youth Conference • Japanese High School Baseball Championship • petitions • school • sports)
Pokémon Lucario becomes official radio calisthenics promoter for kids across Japan【Video】
- Krista Rogers
Apr 19, 2022
Radio calisthenics to encourage fitness are making a comeback with the help of a perpetually popular Pokémon.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • exercise • fitness • Lucario • Pokemon • radio calisthenics • radio taiso • rajio taiso • school • video • video games)
Japanese school entrance ceremony held in the metaverse for over 3,000 new students
- Master Blaster
Apr 14, 2022
Metaversity?
- Internet, Japan
- (entrance ceremony • metaverse • Niigata • Panther • Satoshi Mukai • school • vocational schools)
Japanese teacher suspended for selling a lot of cows without telling the school
- Katie Pask
Apr 11, 2022
The man’s actions were udderly despicable.
- Japan
- (animals • calf • calves • controversial • cow • cows • crime • Nagasaki • school • teacher • Teachers)
Top five Japanese prefectures for childhood education expenditure would make any wallet shudder
- Katy Kelly
Dec 20, 2021
On average, parents in Prefecture #1 are paying around five times more to send kids to school than parents in Prefecture #47.
- Japan
- (Aomori • birth rate • children • education • kids • Living in Japan • Parenting • parents • school • society • Tokyo)
“How I learned to stop worrying and eat Japanese school lunches,” by P.K. Sanjun
- Katie Pask
Nov 23, 2021
A touching tale in which our brave reporter overcame his daily battle with school lunches.
- Japan
- (food • funny • japanese school • Japanese school lunch • P.K. Sanjun • pk sanjun • school • school lunch • story)
Japanese elementary school student teaches us how to solve a difficult maths problem
- Oona McGee
Nov 18, 2021
A lesson in multiplication opens our eyes to a new way of thinking.
- Japan
- (cool • elementary school • elementary school students • homework • learning • math • mathematics • maths • multiplication • school • students • twitter)
The most brilliant summer homework idea ever: Eat wagyu for Yakiniku Day
- Krista Rogers
Aug 30, 2021
Teachers, feel free to assign us this year’s and next year’s homework while you’re at it!
- Japan
- (agriculture • beef • gourmet • school • summer homework • taste test • Wagyu • Zen-Noh)
Checking in on randoseru school bags and the changing tastes of Japanese kids
- Katy Kelly
Jul 5, 2021
The standard of plain backpacks, red for girls and black for boys, is starting to evolve.
What event did you hate most in elementary school? Survey asks Japanese adults
- Katie Pask
Jun 7, 2021
Those less sportingly inclined had a hard time.
- Japan
- (elementary school • events • Japanese schools • marathon • school • society • sport • sports • Sports Day • survey)
High school students rapidly losing interest in sumo teams because too “painful,” “scary,” and “naked”
- Master Blaster
May 20, 2021
Those three words sound like a good time to me, but I guess I’m the weird one…
- Japan
- (coronavirus • COVID-19 • culture • high school sports • school • sports • Sumo • tradition)
Osaka elementary school becomes first in Japan to have a police box established on campus
- SoraNews24
May 13, 2021
Will this police box be an outlier or set a new precedent for community policing?
- Japan
- (elementary school • Japanese schools • koban • Moriguchi • news • Osaka • police • Police box • safety • school)
Teacher disciplined for drinking alcohol during class in Japan
- Oona McGee
Apr 19, 2021
Students driving you to drink is no excuse to open a cold one in the classroom.
- Japan
- (chu-hi • education • elementary school • Japanese schools • Japanese students • news • Okinawa • school • teacher • teaching)
Why do kids in Japan use those large leathery “randoseru” school bags?
- Master Blaster
Apr 7, 2021
A trend a century and a half in the making.
- Japan
- (culture • Edo • education • fashion • Gakushuin • history • Japanese language • linguistics • Meiji • randoseru • school • school bag • society • Taisho)
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