Sota Fujimori is the luckiest 10-year-old in Japan. Sitting in right-center field on Wednesday night at the Tokyo Dome, he watched Shohei Ohtani’s home run in the fifth inning fall off the hands of ...

dates back to the Meiji era and symbolizes discipline and educational growth.For Japanese kids, the randoseru is more than just a bag—it’s a symbol of childhood, discipline, and shared ...

For all my concern, however, there was always a hopeful asterisk in the plan — maybe my half-Asian kid would have it a bit easier than I did. Her “otherness” only comprised half of her ...

I’ve got lots of stuff in this starter pack. For all my concern, however, there was always a hopeful asterisk in the plan — maybe my half-Asian kid would have it a bit easier than I did. Her ...

The event was the third for Cecilia Hughes, a sixth grader at Zama Middle High School, who said she always looks for opportunities to hang out with Japanese kids. There was a bit of a language ...

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For a lot of kids in Japan, the first thing they do when they get to school in the morning isn’t to sharpen a pencil, take out a sheet of paper, or open a textbook and stand it up on their desk in ...

Japanese mythology is full of amazing stories and characters — from the gods that rule over nature to the monsters that dwell in the depths of hell. You probably read bedtime stories about these ...

The Johnny Depp film "Minamata,” rather than a Japanese source, motivated Japanese students at a school in Milan to want to study Minamata disease, one of the worst ecological disasters to have ...