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.

An elementary school here with a growing population of foreign students -- now accounting for over 40% of its roll -- has implem･･･ ...

Shin, for the first time, is the main host! He shows what an elementary school student in Japan needs when going back to school after summer break. Japan tries to rescue man stuck in sinkhole.

A staff member at the elementary school in Tokyo who had just returned ... general secretary of the Chiba branch of the All Japan Teachers and Staff Union, distributed leaflets demanding more ...

The total number of people who killed themselves in the country fell for the second straight year to the second-lowest level since 2019, the health ministry said.

American teachers from a Defense Department school sampled Okinawa delicacies and explored Japanese teaching methods during a ...

Japan reported 527 children attending elementary, junior high and senior high schools in died by suicide last year. This is higher than the 2023 record at 514, preliminary government data showed ...