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The education ministry is aiming to secure more teachers by making it easier for working adults to switch careers to teaching.
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2026
Education ministry to offer one-year teaching license course for working adults
The ministry is aiming to secure more teachers in Japan by making it easier for working adults to switch careers to teaching.
The education ministry plans to help local governments strengthen their Japanese-language teaching programs through subsidies and expert guidance.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 19, 2026
Japan to expand language education for foreign residents
The education ministry plans to help local governments strengthen their teaching programs through subsidies and expert guidance.
The Japan Juku Association has established its own certification system to be issued to cram schools that are taking sufficient measures to prevent sexual violence against children.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 12, 2026
Anti-sexual assault certification set for 91AV原创 cram schools
The move comes ahead of the Dec. 25 launch of a Japanese version of Britain’s Disclosure and Barring Service.
Police officers in riot gear stand guard in front of protesters during a demonstration by French high school and university students in Paris as part of a nationwide day of protests and blockades supported by teachers and school parents to demand better school conditions in France, on Thursday.
WORLD / Society
Oct 9, 2026
France to fight student unrest by dispatching thousands of teachers
Some 3,000 substitute teachers that currently have no students “because the past assignment processes were inefficient” will be dispatched.
The central government is pushing for afterschool activities to be operated by local private teams, clubs and coaches to reduce the burden of teachers, who currently work overtime and weekends to oversee them.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 31, 2026
Kobe shifts extracurriculars from municipal junior high schools to private clubs
The city becomes one of the first in the country to do so as local governments aim to reduce teachers’ overtime and address the declining population of children.
Members of a Hyogo-based school assistance team help clean a junior high school hit by the July 28 earthquake in the city of Uki, Kumamoto Prefecture, this week.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 20, 2026
Teams of teachers rally to support reopening of earthquake-hit Kumamoto schools
Drawing on their past experiences in disaster-stricken areas, team members are helping schools in the prefecture return to normal.
Firefighters examine a room where a fire broke out last Friday at Takinogawa Daisan Elementary School in Tokyo's Kita Ward.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2026
Police investigate possible link between laundry and school fire
In addition to a burnt electric heater and multiple air circulators, a power strip with multiple outlets was found at the scene.
The Nagoya District Court has convicted Fumiya Kosemura, a 38-year-old former elementary school teacher, of sharing illicit voyeuristic images of schoolchildren in a private online chat group of teachers.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 15, 2026
Ex-teacher given eight years in prison over voyeuristic images of children
Fumiya Kosemura, 38, secretly photographed girls in underwear at an elementary school in Yokohama and shared the images in a chat group.
Students gather near a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin following a ceremony marking Knowledge Day and the beginning of a new academic year at a cadet boarding school, in the course of Russia-Ukraine military conflict in Donetsk, a Russian-controlled city of Ukraine, on Sept. 1, 2025.
WORLD
May 26, 2026
‘Next time, I’ll stab you’: Russia sees spate of wartime school attacks
There have been at least 14 reported attacks in schools and other educational institutions in Russia so far this year compared with 15 in the whole of 2025.
Teachers are increasingly having difficulty communicating with children staying out of school and members of their families.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Tohoku
May 25, 2026
Teachers struggle to support children who refuse to attend school
One school principal in Miyagi Prefecture says more teachers are struggling to be accepted by the families of children who won’t go to school.
A classroom at Ozu Junior High School in Izumiotsu, Osaka Prefecture, looks more like a cafe, and students can sit wherever they want during social studies class.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Apr 20, 2026
At a unique state school in Osaka Prefecture, students take the lead
At Ozu Junior High School, students have determined the look of their uniform, the design of a library and classroom, and even the school’s guidelines.
The Nagoya District Court has sentenced Yuji Wada, a 42-year-old former elementary school teacher who started a group chat encouraging the sharing of indecent images of young girls, to two years and six months in prison.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 16, 2026
Ex-teacher who opened group chat for sharing indecent images gets jail
Yuji Wada, one of seven teachers who reportedly victimized more than 75 children, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison by the Nagoya District Court.
The education ministry found that 111, or about 14%, of all universities in Japan offering teacher training courses do not provide classes on sexual violence prevention as required by law.
JAPAN
Mar 16, 2026
Education ministry aims for stricter curbs against teacher voyeurism
Last year, authorities uncovered an incident in which seven teachers secretly shared videos of female students in a social media group chat.
Koji Yamaguchi, a teacher at Rokko Gakuin Junior and Senior High School in Kobe, shows in January a picture of a beach in Shichigahama, Miyagi Prefecture, which was affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2026
Teacher in Japan who experienced two disasters works to pass down memories
The Kobe teacher’s central message to his students is the importance of “everyday life before the disaster.”
Homeroom teacher Yoko Hirota in a classroom set up at Fukuoka Children's Hospital in Fukuoka. Hirota is now in her sixth year of teaching in a hospital classroom.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Mar 9, 2026
Fukuoka’s in-hospital classes help students keep up with school
Despite the burden of treatment, students are striving to learn, and some even take their high school entrance exams in their hospital rooms.
Kirara Takahashi, who will become an elementary school teacher in April, visits the former Kadonowaki Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in January. The school has been preserved as an earthquake and tsunami memorial following the March 2011 disaster.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 8, 2026
Childhood vow with late friend inspires woman to become teacher
Kirara Takahashi was in first grade when the tsunami crashed into Ishinomaki. Now 22, she’s honoring her friend who didn’t make it.
The education ministry noted that schools are struggling to find nonregular teachers to replace young regular teachers leaving for illness, pregnancy, childbirth or other reasons.
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2026
3,827 teacher positions unfilled across Japan: 2025 survey
The figure jumped from 2,065 in the previous survey four years earlier, reflecting the country’s worsening teacher shortage.
The University of Tsukuba says it is investigating whether online comments made by two faculty members against foreign nationals amount to a breach of work regulations or its social media guidelines.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 17, 2026
University of Tsukuba apologizes over comments against foreign students
Two faculty members posted inflammatory comments on social media about foreign nationals, including describing foreign students as “incompetent” and “troublemakers.”
The education ministry reported on Monday that 281 teachers and staff were disciplined for sexual offenses in fiscal 2024, down 39 from 2023, but cases continue to emerge nationwide.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 23, 2025
More than 280 educators disciplined for sexual misconduct in fiscal 2024
The figure was down 39 from the record high in fiscal 2023, but cases of indecent acts by?teachers and staff have continued to surface nationwide.
Hitoshi Kikawada (second from left), minister in charge of children’s policies, speaks during an expert panel meeting at the the Children and Families Agency on Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2025
Experts draft guidelines for Japanese version of Britain’s Disclosure and Barring Service
The system from the Children and Families Agency would allow businesses to check the sexual offense records of teachers and others whose work involves contact with children.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
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Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
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Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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