Shinichi Yamanaka was a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Education at Asia Society in summer 2017. Yamanaka is the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria (2015–2016) ...

While you read this article, look up and count six people around you. One of them may experience a significant disability, according to WHO data. If none of them appears to be a person with a ...

The administrator in chief of Korea University, Kwon Mun Ju, is sitting in the middle of a row of empty armchairs under framed pictures of Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, and his father, the ...

A nation respectful of centuries-old traditions, Japan is also the well-spring of the world’s future. The high-speed train, the Walkman and humanoid robots are just a few Japanese inventions that have ...

Japan is gaining ground as a study destination for Indian students, backed by scholarships like MEXT, growing university ...

This past fall I was part of a group of educators who were awarded fellowships to travel to Japan and learn about the country’s education system. During my three-week stay in Tokyo and the southern ...

January and February decides the fate of Japanese students preparing for university entrance exams. This year’s high schoolers have been through a particularly stressful period because of policy ...

Japan has been an Asian pioneer in learning from the West since the Meiji Restoration. Every now and then, though, the effort has been questioned: Why should Japan imitate others? Today’s Japan ...

The Japanese government has pushed through controversial changes to the country’s education law, winding back the clock to the state indoctrination that characterised the militarist regimes of the ...