- Rare pieces of French glass art at the Mirai Museum of Art
- Feast on fresh fish and seafood at the 2024 ‘Sakana’ Festival
- Would you like to ride in a Louis Vuitton gondola lift?
- Naked Snow Aquarium
- Festive lights at Yomiuriland will get you feeling the holiday vibes
- Yomiuriland holiday illumination
- Biota of the Imperial Palace
All posts tagged "Education"
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New study: All-day preschool proves more beneficial to children than half-day programs
A study by the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development recently published in JAMA Network found that the length of preschool program that a child attends has a significant impact in his/her future academic success. Professor...
- Posted January 4, 2024
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Toyota in search of 2024 Dream Car Art Contest winner
In its active quest for ideas in delivering the cars of the future for a better mobility system, Japanese giant car maker Toyota believes it’s important to include today’s children and future end-users in the imagineering process....
- Posted October 30, 2023
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Beyond school: Is homeschooling the right choice for every family?
I had the pleasure of chatting with Kimberly Gawne, educator and founder of Star Students, about the benefits (and potential concerns) of homeschooling. Perhaps you’re homeschooling already or thinking of doing so. Many people were introduced to...
- Posted October 4, 2023
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Japan to ban sex crime teachers and nursery workers from schools
Japan’s Children and Families Agency held the first meeting Tuesday of an expert panel to discuss a system barring people with sex crime records from becoming school teachers and nursery workers. Under the system dubbed as the...
- Posted June 28, 2023
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Japan’s education ministry to release school guidelines calling for limited use of AI tools
The Japanese education ministry’s guidelines on the use of generative artificial intelligence in elementary, junior high and high schools will call for limited use of AI tools for the time being, according to media reports Tuesday. Generative...
- Posted June 28, 2023
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What you should know about the International Mathematical Olympiad 2023
The 64th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), a highly prestigious and competitive mathematical competition attracting the best high school mathematicians worldwide, will be held in Chiba, Japan from July 2 to 13. The event this year will be...
- Posted June 9, 2023
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‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google to warn of the tech’s dangers
Geoffrey Hinton, often dubbed the godfather of artificial intelligence has quit his job at Google to speak out about the dangers of the technology, US media reported Monday. The computer scientist who created a foundation technology for...
- Posted May 11, 2023
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Six Percent of Foreign children registered in Japan do not attend school
Foreign children registered as residents in Japan were not or may not have been receiving compulsory education according to a recent survey by the Ministry of Education. Records reveal there are a total of 8,183 children not...
- Posted April 24, 2023
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Junior High School students take their first English Test today.
Third year – Junior high school students in Japan will take the Spoken English test online for the first time today as part of the education ministry’s national achievement test. The 2023 nationwide achievement test, the first...
- Posted April 18, 2023
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See the real Tyrannosaurus Rex “Tyson” fossils at a rare exhibit in Tokyo
It’s not enough that you buy your kids dinosaur picture books, T-Rex and Triceratops toys. Let them see real dinosaur fossils. An upcoming exhibition offers such rare opportunity. For the first time in Japan, “Dinosaur Expo 2023” featuring...
- Posted March 10, 2023
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Japan wants English proficiency level of high school students raised
In the existing five-year plan through fiscal 2022, 50 percent is the national target for English proficiency in high school and junior high students. It appears that’s going to change soon. On Wednesday, a Japanese government panel...
- Posted March 9, 2023
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Toddlers’ Attention to ‘Motherese’ speech can help fast-track autism diagnosis and treatment
Through instinctively speaking to babies in a high pitch and in a playful way also known as ‘motherese’ speech, babies learn to mimic them, get cues how words should sound coming out of their own mouths, A...
- Posted March 2, 2023
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‘Sesame Street’ Co-creator Lloyd Morissette dies
Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit Morissette co-founded in 1968 under the Children’s Television Workshop, has announced his death this week. Sesame Workshop says in a statement on Twitter, “A wise, thoughtful and above all kind leader of the Workshop...
- Posted January 24, 2023
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The International Youth Orchestra is looking for young musicians
The International Youth Orchestra at Tokyo College of Music is looking for young musicians who play orchestral instruments for the orchestral. This is an excellent opportunity for students who are between the ages of 12-18 (with exceptions)...
- Posted January 23, 2023
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11 YouTube Channels taught someone more than a 4-year college degree!
“99% of people waste time watching mind-numbing content,” says Ishan Sharma, a third year Electrical and Electronics Engineering student and digital entrepreneur. Here are 11 YouTube Channels he says, ‘taught him more than a 4-year college degree’....
- Posted January 4, 2023
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Finland introduces critical thinking classes to schoolchildren from kindergarten.
According to Jiji Press, Russia’s information warfare is creating social division and confusion in Europe and the United States, that is also giving rise to anti-immigrant sentiments. In Italy, an extreme right-wing party that seized power advocated...
- Posted November 22, 2022
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Babies and Preschoolers acquire literacy skills when you read to them.
Back in the old days, children of the ’50s and ’60s weren’t introduced to reading until they began primary school. As the number of mothers joining the workforce gradually increased, so too did preschools. Parents in Tokyo...
- Posted September 8, 2022
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Japan schools to start using digital textbooks from 2024
Japan’s education ministry plans to move school children to digital textbooks from fiscal year 2024. The first to do so will be English classes for elementary grades 5 and 6, as well as junior high. Mathematics classes,...
- Posted August 26, 2022
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Science experiments in Japanese schools reduced due to the pandemic
A government survey reveals the country’s Covid-19 response measures had imposed less science experiments and observations among children at Japanese schools. The percentage of elementary and junior high school children having such activity as part of the...
- Posted July 29, 2022
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200 Public School Teachers in Japan Punished for Sexual Abuse
Japan’s education ministry revealed on Tuesday that a total of 200 teachers at public schools (fiscal year 2020) were subjected to disciplinary action for sexual abuse. Although the annual figure fell from 273 in fiscal 2019, the...
- Posted December 22, 2021
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Why century-old Montessori approach remains relevant today.
The influence of home as children’s first school where they develop and build strength of character, unique personal attributes and skills is, no doubt, huge. But so too is the influence of schools in instructional scaffolding. As...
- Posted November 9, 2021
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Japan’s Education Minister Wants Class Size Reduced
Japan’s Education minister Shinsuke Suematsu who assumed his role on October 4 said in an interview, the country should aim at reducing the admission size per class to 30 at public elementary and junior high schools. “Meticulous...
- Posted October 28, 2021
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A private school in London to teach children why James Bond was always a “white” man.
Starting from year 9, pupils at St. Dunstan’s College, an expensive private school in southeast London will have “white privilege” lessons. The all-new program hopes to teach pupils why all British Prime Ministers including James Bond actors...
- Posted October 18, 2021
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Facebook puts Instagram Kids project on pause amid mental health concerns
The head of Instagram Adam Mosseri said Monday it will be pausing its work on the children-dedicated Instagram app project in order to listen to concerns raised by parents, experts and regulators regarding its impact on teens’...
- Posted September 27, 2021
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Unmasked nursery teachers send 65 infected kids to the hospital.
Asahi News reported today that 65 children and 14 adults at Jyozan nursery school in Kumamoto’s Nishi ward, tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Although the teaching staff were advised to wear masks, they were not strictly...
- Posted September 10, 2021
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The Number of Waitlisted children for Nursery Schools Drops to over half
The number of children waiting for a slot at Japan’s public nursery drops by 6,805 or 54.7 % as of April according to a survey by Japan’s Health and Welfare Ministry. The number of waitlisted children is...
- Posted August 27, 2021
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Doctors warn: Milk Crate TikTok Challenge Can Cause Terrible Injury
If you have children at home, you probably have heard of the milk crate challenge. The milk crate stunt that started on TikTok is the latest challenge to take the internet by storm. Participants take a set...
- Posted August 27, 2021
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Japan Schools mull summer break extension amid covid spikes
In the midst of the worst surge of COVID-19 cases in Japan, Local governments are having to make big decisions before students return to school from summer break. While some have already decided to extend the holidays,...
- Posted August 25, 2021
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Meet the Teenpreneurs who just sold their first startup.
Two teen coders from Seattle, Sage Khanuja, 17, and Nikolas Ioannou, 18, noticed a lack of patient-centered technology. They then developed a telemedicine startup Spira for patients to be able to track their respiratory health and other...
- Posted July 27, 2021
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7-year old boy dies after violent shoulder throws in judo class
Huang, a seven-year-old boy in Taiwan mercilessly thrown to the ground 27 times at a Judo class in April, died on Tuesday, June 29. On April 27, the 67-year old Judo instructor ordered a 10-year-old classmate to...
- Posted June 30, 2021