Japan’s public school system is facing mounting pressure on multiple fronts. Teachers are working some of the longest hours in the developed world, taking on administrative duties, supervising club ...
Usuda High School is an hour and a half outside of Nagano by train. It's spartan by any standards. Students do all the maintenance. They don't seem to mind, because after all, it is their school.
KUMAMOTO -- A former high school classroom where literary giants Soseki Natsume (1867-1916) and Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) used to teach has been preserved in southwest Japan. The Memorial Museum of ...