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 ...

Tokyo, January 12 (ENInews)--A new Japanese film highlights the struggles of a Christian music teacher and two former teachers to defend their beliefs, including their disagreement with the compulsory ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

For some teachers in Japan, the most punishing part of the job does not happen in the classroom. It comes in the form of late-night phone calls, prolonged confrontations and relentless demands from so ...

The suspect has denied the allegations, while dozens of boys at the facility and affiliated after-school care center have ...

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 ...