How Demographics Are Pushing Japan’s Top University To Look Outward

As Japan’s population ages and youth cohorts shrink, universities are looking outward. At the University of Tokyo, Kaori ...
Foreign Affairs

Japan Education: Global Groundbreakers

A nation respectful of centuries-old traditions, Japan is also the well-spring of the world’s future. The high-speed train, the Walkman and humanoid robots are just a few Japanese inventions that have ...
Business Insider

I went to school in the US and Japan. Japan gave me a sense of community, but the US taught me to have my own opinions.

For six years I lived with my grandparents in Okinawa for a couple of months. I learned so much about music when I was in school in Japan. I think a mix of both educational systems would be ideal. For ...
East Asia Forum

Japan’s equal educational opportunity faces funding dilemma

The policy debate over free high school tuition is drawing considerable attention in Japan. Compulsory education ends in junior high school but the high school enrolment rate already reached nearly 98 ...
Asia Society

The Making of a Japanese

Filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki offers a unique lens to this question by playing observer to the Japanese education system, carefully uncovering the cultural intricacies that define what it truly means to ...
The New York Times

What a School Performance Shows

Ms. Yamazaki is a documentary filmmaker. Update: This documentary short is nominated for the 97th Academy Awards. What makes Japanese people distinctively Japanese? For me, the key lies in what we are ...
cursus.edu

The Japanese lesson in learning

With 127 million people, Japan according to the OECD is one of the most developed and wealthiest countries in the world, albeit with record debt (debts equivalent to 250% of GDP) and a low birth rate ...