School with over 40% foreigners offers Japanese 'survival course,' small-group teaching
An elementary school here with a growing population of foreign students -- now accounting for over 40% of its roll -- has ...
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American and Japanese teachers share educational strategies on Okinawa
American teachers from a Defense Department school sampled Okinawa delicacies and explored Japanese teaching methods during a ...
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‘Instruments of a Beating Heart’: Education system is key to Japan’s culture
Instruments of a Beating Heart” follows a group of first graders in Japan who form an orchestra to play Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” as part of a welcoming ceremony for the incoming class of 6-year-olds.
INTERVIEW/ Ema Yamazaki: Documentary highlights the pros and cons of Japanese schools
A documentary film that records the daily lives of children at a Japanese public elementary school has lessons for both ...
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Fusako Goto was a toddler in Fukuoka, Japan, when she started using chopsticks to eat. At age 65, she now teaches elementary school students in Litchfield how to use the Japanese eating utensils.
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Japanese School of Guam to be renamed Japanese International Academy of Guam
The Japanese School ... the two,” Japanese School of Guam President Saeko Tokito said in a statement. “Our commitment to our community extends beyond the classroom—we strive to nurture ...
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I uprooted my life and moved across the world to teach at a Japanese high school. These are the 3 things I learned, and why I'd do it again.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nic Lim, an author from New Zealand who moved to Japan for four years to work as an English teacher ... of a blazing Japanese summer, en ...