TOKYO -- When the national anthem started playing during a ceremony this year at Tachikawa Daini Junior High School, Kimiko Nezu, a soft-spoken but resolute home economics teacher, refused to stand ...

The curriculum includes 46 alphabets, three ways of writing and more than 200 Chinese characters, but Shorecrest’s new Japanese teacher, Sachiko Smith, insists that taking her Japanese class involves ...

The following report is part of CBS News' new series on education: Reading, Writing and Reform. First thing in the morning, Japanese children bow to their teachers. It's a small gesture that says a ...

Tokyo, Nov. 6 (Jiji Press)--The Tokyo metropolitan government's board of education on Thursday drafted an outline of proposed guidelines to help school teachers respond to unreasonable demands ...