This article by Pinki Sris Rana was first published on the Nepali Times. An edited and shortened version is republished below as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices. Ayan Dallakoti ...

The future of our childrenReflections on the differences between education in Japan and the Nordic countries. By the time our ...

Coinciding with Japan’s domestic milestone is an effort at the United Nations to draft a new international human rights treaty—technically a “fourth optional protocol” to the 1989 Convention on the ...

Kani, a city with a population of 99,000 in Gifu, is a part of the Nagoya metropolitan area home to many industrial facilities. Over the past several decades, the number of foreign residents in the ...

In 2019, I was approached by the Office of International Education at the university where I teach and asked to design a course that would culminate in a trip abroad for the students. Given my ...

The policy debate over free high school tuition is drawing considerable attention in Japan. Compulsory education ends in junior high school but the high school enrolment rate already reached nearly 98 ...