By Nathaniel Reed For 16 years, I have worked in education in Japan -- from kindergartens to universities, conversation ...

The Japanese education system is facing a crisis. Its elementary and junior high school teachers work the longest hours in the world, according to a global survey. But that effort comes with a cost ...

Despite its low birth rates, Japan is struggling with a shortage of teachers. In Japan, a ‘teacher shortage’ is a situation in which the number of teachers assigned to schools does not meet local ...

Jayson Donor Zabala was my student at De La Salle University, where we met at the university’s preservice teacher training program. He is admirable for his passion to teach English, to inspire ...

GINOWAN CITY, Okinawa — Teachers from a Defense Department school sampled Okinawa delicacies and explored Japanese teaching methods during a recent visit to a local elementary school. English-speaking ...

The Vietnamese community in Japan currently has nearly 600,000 people and is growing stronger. Maintaining the Vietnamese ...

Brianna Stultz got an offer to teach on a military base in Okinawa, Japan, and moved in December. She struggled to work with her coteacher and was ultimately fired. Despite making a friend and loving ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lily Jones is a teacher advocate who covers education. District after district is short on teachers. Recent research shows that ...

In a small fishing village situated along the eastern coast of Japan, a couple from Lancaster city, two elementary school teachers, wake up at 4:30 a.m. to get to the pier. There, they climb aboard ...

Teachers are used to dealing with the occasional class clown—but what happens when most of the class requires that level of handling? Classroom disruptions and poor behavior have been on the rise, ...