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High school textbooks for use from fiscal 2027 will have QR codes that allow students to access materials online.
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2026
Japan considering paper-digital hybrid textbooks as standard
The education ministry’s plan calls for placing more emphasis on paper-based materials while giving a supplementary role to digital materials.
The use of official digital textbooks is expected to start as early as April 2030, after they go through government inspections in fiscal 2028.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 10, 2026
Japan makes digital textbooks for schools official
Under the new legal framework, education boards will decide which type of textbooks schools under their jurisdiction should adopt — print, digital or a digital-print “hybrid.”
Digital textbooks let students check pronunciation and practice instruments with videos, but some worry about potential effects on children's eyesight.
JAPAN
Apr 7, 2026
Japanese government passes bill to make digital textbooks official
Digital textbooks are expected to be used as official learning materials from as early as fiscal 2030 after government screenings in fiscal 2028.
Many high school textbooks to be used from fiscal 2027 have descriptions about generative AI.
JAPAN
Mar 25, 2026
High school textbooks to teach various aspects of generative AI
A total of 220 textbooks for 11 subjects have passed the second round of screenings conducted under the current curriculum guidelines.
"Animator Skill Test Textbook” was written in concert with a test created and administered by the Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association since 2024. The test was designed to help set a baseline for those studying animation, and so that animation studios can get a better idea of applicants' current skill level.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 4, 2025
English textbook targets a skills gap in 91AV原创 growing anime industry
From “dōga” to “lip flap,” the Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association’s “Animator Skill Test Textbook” teaches aspiring animators how to talk like the pros.
Textbooks carrying QR codes that link to websites with video and audio learning aid materials
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2025
Most Japanese high school textbooks to include QR codes
In response to the rapid progress of digitalization, many of the textbooks include descriptions on information ethics and generative AI.
Students wave flags as they join during a rally at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh on Sept. 5, 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 23, 2025
After revolution, Bangladesh textbooks rewrite history
Radical changes to school curricula are routine in Bangladesh, where fierce political divisions date back decades.
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 13, 2024
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
The English versions of Yamakawa Shuppansha’s iconic textbooks appear to be popular among Japanese businesspeople looking to discuss history with their overseas peers.
Textbook publisher Kyoiku-Shuppan switched a section about Ippei Mizuhara (left) in its English textbook to a story about Japanese men's national soccer team.
JAPAN / Society
Jun 21, 2024
Section on Ohtani’s ex-interpreter removed from Japanese textbook
The section has been replaced with a section on the Japanese men’s national soccer team.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research's Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, is depicted as a circle in tactile drawing in the new book, as opposed to the three-dimensional figure in the source material that makes it appear oval, to avoid misunderstanding.
JAPAN / Society
May 29, 2024
Japan translates physics book into braille
The book was produced through cooperation among the authors of the source material, braille experts and researchers with visual impairment.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2022
Japan to start full use of digital textbooks from 2024
As is the case with paper textbooks, digital textbooks will be procured with state funds and made available to students for free of charge.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2019
New Chinese history textbook to stress territorial rights over Japan-administered Senkakus
A new Chinese history textbook will stress that the disputed Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture have been part of China since ancient times, according to the Global Times, a newspaper affiliated with the Communist Party of China.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Oct 1, 2018
Load lifted from students’ shoulders as ministry recommends letting them leave textbooks at school
In early September, the education ministry issued a notice to boards of education nationwide asking schools to let students leave their textbooks and other study materials at school — the practice known as okiben in Japanese — to reduce the weight of their school bags.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 24, 2018
Cabinet adopts bills targeting hurdles to e-book use in schools
The Cabinet has adopted a bill that would allow digital textbooks to be used at elementary, junior high and high schools.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Mar 6, 2017
Let’s discuss changes to education in Japan
The education ministry will lay out new school curriculum guidelines that urge elementary and junior high schools to teach students that the disputed Senkaku Islands and Takeshima islets are ‘integral parts of Japanese territory.’
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2017
New education ministry guidelines to urge schools to teach that Senkakus, Takeshima belong to Japan
The education ministry is set lay out new curriculum guidelines that bind schools to teach young students the disputed Senkaku and Takeshima islets are “integral parts of Japanese territory.”
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 5, 2016
Time to include teachers in textbook selections
Teachers are professionals who are less likely to be swayed by special interest groups. It’s time to give them a louder voice in the textbook selection process.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 28, 2015
Asia mostly backsliding on democratic values
In Japan, lawyers are fortunately not arrested by the state for doing their job, as they are in China. Nor are academics faced with indictment for challenging mainstream history narratives, as in South Korea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 7, 2015
South Korea’s new state textbook ‘corrects’ history
South Korea recently announced plans for a revisionist textbook that will whitewash that country’s history and has the academic community outraged over political meddling. At least the move gives South Korean President Park Geun-hye something in common with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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.
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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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