EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has picked up North American distribution rights to The Friends (1994) and Love Hotel (1985), two ...

If you were raising children overseas, what kind of picture books would you want for them?Since last summer, Bookstart Japan, a nonprofit gro･･･ ...

A temple in Japan's capital will soon offer "omikuji" paper fortune-telling slips in Braille, as the writing system for blind people and thos･･･ ...

The move is likely to spark debate as it would drastically transform what form textbooks — the foundation of the country’s school education system — should take. The education ministry is considering ...

TOKYO – The education ministry is considering giving digital textbooks, which are currently used as substitute teaching materials for paper textbooks, an official status to be used as school textbooks ...

The education ministry is considering giving digital textbooks, which are currently used as substitute ... Indonesia Launches Free School Meal Program with Support from Japan; Ishiba Currying Favor ...

Of the elementary and junior high school principals across Japan who responded to the survey, 95% said they want to use both forms of textbook. The survey was conducted online between late November ...

KOBE (Kyodo) -- The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on ... Kizo Hisamoto said at a ceremony organized by the city. Genki Hasegawa, a 38-year-old teacher who lost his mother and brother ...

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In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

It turns out their ‘real’ mockups and demos were based on the same rumors that were already going around. After last week’s hype and hysteria over the Switch 2 demo Genki brought to CES, the ...

TOKYO -- Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump, who in his first term accused Japan of manipulating the yen, would do well to cooperate with Tokyo on weakening the overly strong dollar, said Tatsuo ...