Pursuing a career as an English teacher is one of the fastest ways to live and work in Japan—provided you meet the ...

Donna Burke has been the voice of Japan's bullet train for 20 years now. She also does voice over for Japan's earthquake ...

It's a scenario that's playing out across Japan as the country's teacher shortage continues to bite. NHK has learned that the teacher shortage is worsening halfway through the school year.

Ranald MacDonald, the son of a Chinook chief and a Scottish settler, staged a shipwreck near Rishiri Island to gain entry into Japan — then, a closed country under isolationist policies. Despite being ...

In the current fiscal year, 38,641 students around Japan sat for the exam ... board of education there had hoped to hire 200 new teachers for the school year beginning in April.

There is an old Japanese saying that to climb Fuji once is wise, to climb it twice is to proclaim oneself a fool.” ...

Q&A with Rachel Tjaden BY MATHIAS BADEN [email protected] Rachel Tjaden of Jordan is teaching in Japan during a disastrous earthquake and tsunami, she has stayed there for the aftermath.

Public schools are facing shortages of teachers across Japan shortly following the beginning of the new academic year in April. Fewer permanent teachers, coupled with job seekers’ tendencies to ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nic Lim, an author from New Zealand who moved to Japan for four years to work as an English teacher. It has been edited for length and clarity.

American teachers from a Defense Department school sampled Okinawa delicacies and explored Japanese teaching methods during a ...

Two of my older sisters also went into teacher training. I reflect now on whether it was good advice to put my dreams second. Perhaps it was. I later really wanted to move to Japan — where I now ...