When you see Japan’s PISA scores and world ranking, you might be impressed by Japanese education’s success in the world. But when you look at English test scores, Japan’s scores are less impressive ...

KUMAMOTO--The arrival of the world’s largest chip factory in Kumamoto Prefecture has sent teachers scrambling to meet surging ...

The hand-wringing in the wake of the disappointing results of the survey of 12,850 public junior high and high school students about English education is understandable. Despite earnest efforts by ...

Despite unanimous agreement about the importance of learning English, Japan and the United States still harbor a misunderstanding about how to teach the subject. The result is continuing ...

This article discusses a collaborative project for developing materials for Japanese Content Based Instruction (CBI), undertaken by instructors at three campuses under the same state university system ...

The Suzuki method of music instruction was born in the mountains. In the aftermath of World War II, Shinichi Suzuki, the son of a violin maker, began a violin studio in the mountain city of Matsumoto, ...