The upgraded curriculum follows the secondary-school rollout that has already drawn 236,000 students.

Officers at Naha Airport on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa arrested Harris on Nov. 16 for an alleged violation of customs law for having 0.78 grams (0.0275 ounces ) of the crystalized drug, also ...

Japan ranked ninety-sixth among 123 non-English speaking countries in the 2025 EF English Proficiency Index, falling into the fifth level out of five set by the company.

A Mainichi Shimbun survey of four-year women's universities across Japan has found that six schools now recognize transgender ...

Every year EF Education First, a Switzerland-based company that provides language learning services and assistance in countries around the world, prepares its English Proficiency Index (or EF EPI) ...

Experts and scholars attend an academic roundtable discussing "Ryukyu and Okinawa in the Postwar 80 Years" held at the Department of History of Peking University on December 6, 2025. Photo: Xing ...