A total of 281 teachers and staff at kindergartens, public elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan were disciplined for sexual offenses in fiscal 2024. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/23/japan/crime-legal/sexual-misconduct-educators/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #mext #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #highschools #children #sexcrimes #kindergartens #teachers #surveys
More than half of cases of sexual deepfakes targeting those under 18 and reported to Japanese police were created by classmates of the victims, National Police Agency data have shown. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/18/japan/crime-legal/half-deepfake-classmates/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #npa #japanesepolice #ai #children #socialmedia #deepfakes #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #highschools
“Politics and daily life in Japan are very separate” — Chinese expats recount their parenting challenges and the conversations on identity they’ve had with their Japan-raised children. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/12/15/issues/chinese-children-raised-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #issues #expats #immigration #china #chinajapanrelations #mixedrelationships #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #highschools
A Kyoto high school has issued an apology after confirming that its students had shoplifted during a study trip to Bali following the emergence of a video online that drew widespread attention. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/10/japan/crime-legal/bali-high-school-students-shoplifting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #bali #children #highschools #kyoto #theft
The education ministry plans to establish a fund for high school education reform in each of the 47 prefectures, totaling some ¥300 billion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/16/japan/high-school-reform-funds/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #highschools #mext #education #depopulation #students
High school students from Sendai, a city hit by a massive tsunami in 2011, spoke at the U.N. headquarters in New York about the importance of disaster prevention education. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/06/japan/students-sendai-un-headquarters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sendai #earthquakes #un #miyagi #311 #highschools #newyork
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the Japan Innovation Party and Komeito agreed Wednesday to launch a program in fiscal year 2026 to effectively make high school education free. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/japan/politics/high-school-education-free-agreement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #ldp #nipponishinnokai #komeito #highschools
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Komeito and Nippon Ishin no Kai on Friday confirmed that foreign students who are not expected to settle in Japan are ineligible for the country's tuition-free high school program. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/03/japan/society/foreigners-high-school-free-tuition-eligibility/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #expats #highschools #education #ldp #komeito #nipponishinnokai
Japanese high school students advocating for the abolition of nuclear weapons presented 110,000 signatures for world peace to the United Nations during a trip to Geneva on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/03/japan/students-signatures-peace-un/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #un#highschools #nuclearweapons #wwii #atomicbombings
Students at Haebaru Junior High School in the town of Haebaru, Okinawa Prefecture, experienced a unique peace-learning workshop about two weeks before Memorial Day marked the end of the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/25/japan/okinawa-peace-education/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #okinawa #wwii #students#highschools #juniorhighschools #education
About 80% of high school students in Japan are interested in wages and labor systems, according to a survey from the labor ministry. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/29/japan/high-school-wages-interest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan#highschools #wages #mhlw #surveys
The English proficiency of public junior high school and senior high school students in Japan continues to improve, an education ministry survey for fiscal 2024 showed Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/24/japan/english-proficiency-improvement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #language #mext #juniorhighschools#highschools #language #english #surveys