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

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 ...

With anime being more popular than ever, you can probably walk through just about any junior high school in Japan and overhear students saying an animated character’s name as they talk about their ...

TOKYO -- Rumiko Akutsu, 74, supports children who have come from abroad as a Japanese language instructor at an elementary school in Shibata, Niigata Prefecture. When she recently got in touch, she ...