The Japanese government’s high school tuition support scheme fails to generate equal access to education for young people.

Professor Yuki Honda, a sociologist at University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Education, is concerned about the rise of state-sponsored authoritarianism within Japan’s compulsory education system.

In Japan, funding for education is largely considered the responsibility of the family. This viewpoint was established by the revision of the Fundamental Law of Education during the Abe administration ...

Japan's plummeting birth rate has sparked policy discussions about the challenges facing higher education institutions that could lead some to shutter. The fertility rate in Japan, or the average ...

Efforts to teach young children about sexuality are becoming more prevalent in Japan, as educators and local governments turn ...