Japan's education ministry has found that bullying at schools across the country hit a record high in fiscal 2024 for the fourth year in a row. The ministry confirmed 769,022 cases of bullying in the ...

A record 353,970 students at elementary and junior high schools in Japan were absent for 30 days or more in fiscal 2024, up 2.2 percent from a year earlier and marking the 12th consecutive annual ...

The elementary school attached to the University of Tsukuba is seen in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Feb. 12, 2025. (Mainichi/Sahomi Nishimoto) TOKYO -- A teacher at an elite national elementary school in ...

The mother of a girl who was bullied at school looks at internal documents in Ibaraki Prefecture, May 23, 2025. She got the documents through a FOIA request, wanting to know how the university was ...