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A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 9, 2026
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
While tuition-free private high school education began in April, families still face a heavy financial burden from expenses other than tuition.
Google, whose Chromebooks are the most widely used laptops in U.S. classrooms, has faced growing resistance to AI from parents and school districts.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 4, 2026
Google lets schools turn off Gemini, but not the AI in search
Alphabet, whose Chromebooks are the most widely used laptops in U.S. classrooms, faces growing resistance to AI from parents and school districts.
Teacher Narumi Hiramatsu poses by a classroom at Shingu Elementary School in Shingu, Fukuoka Prefecture. She says she worked together with students to decorate the classroom windows.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Nov 2, 2026
One teacher’s lesson in the power of saying, ‘I need help’
By allowing others to see she needs support due to having hearing loss, the teacher says she can show the importance of being able to ask for help.
Demonstrators clash with police in Paris on Saturday amid nationwide protests over the cost of living and rising fuel prices.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2026
A French accident waiting to happen
France may be the first major test, but other heavily indebted European countries could face similar pressures.
Sapporo Mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto’s successor will face the question of whether to revive the city’s bid for the Winter Olympics.
JAPAN / Politics / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Oct 26, 2026
Sapporo mayoral race takes shape with Olympics and foreign population in focus
Those issues, along with tourism, could prove crucial in the race to succeed Katsuhiro Akimoto.
As of August this year, the number of registered Japanese language teachers was about 20,000.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2026
Japan faces shortage of language teachers for foreign workers
Of the survey’s respondents, 125 organizations, or 35.9%, said they had not secured sufficient numbers of teachers and had no prospects for doing so.
A demonstrator kicks back a tear gas canister during clashes with police at an anti-government protest organized by the Italia in Piazza movement, at Piazza Duomo in Milan, on Oct. 17.
WORLD / Society
Oct 23, 2026
Student protests mushroom across Europe, exposing bleak views of the future
The protesters’ gloom reflects a Continent that is struggling to find a way forward, with Europe’s populations aging and debt rising.
Some municipalities allow students who refuse to attend school to undergo health checkups separately from other students or at local medical institutions, according to the internal affairs ministry.
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2026
Japan eyes health checkup support for truant students
Some municipalities allow truant students to undergo health checkups on days and times when they would not meet other students at school.
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.
A 16-member screening committee at the University of Tokyo said it had been looking for a leader with strong ethical standards who could restore public trust amid a series of scandals.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 21, 2026
Education ministry calls for University of Tokyo to review president selection
It is the first time the government has requested a review of how a university selected its president.
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 goal of Fukushima University's overhaul is to meet the demands of a rapidly changing society by strengthening the university's science and engineering programs.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Oct 19, 2026
Fukushima University to undergo overhaul with greater science focus
The university is responding to calls from industries for workers capable of supporting growth sectors such as artificial intelligence.
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.
Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan agree on the establishment of the Turkish-Japanese Science and Technology University during a meeting in October 2013.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2026
Turkish-Japanese science university opens in Ankara
At Turkish-Japanese Science and Technology University, about 100 Turkish students will study artificial intelligence, earthquakes and other fields.
The University of Tokyo’s Historiographical Institute on the Hongo Campus in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 14, 2026
The University of Tokyo’s first female president, then the backlash
Japan is ranked 117th among 145 countries in the World Economic Forum’s 2026 Global Gender Gap Index.
Students take a Japanese class at a school in Suez, northern Egypt, on Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2026
Japanese-language classes begin at select schools in Egypt
The schools, established under a 2016 agreement, incorporate Japanese school practices such as classroom cleaning and student duty rotations.
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 今日吃瓜 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.
People take part in a demonstration, part of a nationwide day of actions called by high-school students and joined by unions and teachers, in Nantes, western France, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2026
French school protests draw over 250,000 as violence flares
Around 256,000 people were taking part in demonstrations, including 56,000 in Paris, according to the Interior Ministry.
French high school students gather outside a high school in Paris as part of nationwide protests over education funding shortages.
WORLD / Society
Oct 6, 2026
French student unrest spreads nationwide as teachers walk out
The protests started in the Paris region in September before unexpectedly gaining steam last week with hundreds of blockades.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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