Education
Education
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Insights & Analysis
Who Pays for "Free" Advice? — Three Japanese Regimes for Job Placement, Language Schools, and Study Abroad
Insights & Analysis
Japan Lost 215 Primary Schools in a Year, and the Average School Still Got Smaller — From 315.7 Pupils to 312.4
Insights & Analysis
Of 84,759 Pupils in Japan Needing Japanese Language Support, 9,699 Receive None — Both the Number and the Share Are Up on the Last Survey
Insights & Analysis
Weekend School Clubs Move to the Community by FY2031, While Weekdays Carry Neither Target Nor Deadline — What the Shift From Transfer to Delivery Left Behind
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Young Carers Fall to 4.1% by Year 11 and Return to 6.2% in Their Third University Year — The Person Cared For Shifts From a Sibling to a Parent With Mental Illness
Insights & Analysis
Before Restricting Children's Social Media by Age — How to Establish Age Is Still Sitting in the Open-Questions Column
Insights & Analysis
The Opinion Is There, the Reason Is Not — 28.4% Correct on Japan's National English Item, With 43.6% Giving the View and No Reason
Insights & Analysis
Teacher Attrition from Mental Illness Hits a Record 1,319 — Will the Raise Reach the Root?
Insights & Analysis
School Pools Are Disappearing — How Fiscal Gaps Between Municipalities Become Gaps in Learning to Swim
Labs
Information Literacy as Counter-Design: Curriculum Principles Centered on Epistemic Justice
Labs
Selective Description in Educational Curricula and the Filtering of Knowledge
Insights & Analysis
What Divides Japan's Teacher Shortage Is the Prefecture: A 4.4x Recruitment Gap and 43 Worsening Local Governments
Insights & Analysis
When Private Afterschool Care Costs Exceed Take-Home Pay — The Market Mechanics of Japan's Child Penalty
Insights & Analysis
A Nation That Underinvests in Education — Japan's Public Spending at 56% of the OECD Average and the Inequality It Perpetuates
Insights & Analysis
Japan's Education Gift-Tax Exemption Is Gone: Reading the Structure Behind Educational Inequality
Insights & Analysis
The Day Digital Textbooks Became Official: Decoding Japan's 2026 Cabinet Decision
Insights & Analysis
353,970 Non-Attending Students: What Japan's 12-Year High Conceals
Insights & Analysis
The Reality After Japan's Digital Textbook 'Formalization': How the Three-Option System Entrenches Regional Inequality
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The Blind Spots of 'Free' Private High School Tuition: How Removing the Income Cap Widens Inequality
Insights & Analysis
Japan's 4,317 Teacher Shortage — Why No One Wants to Teach
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The Anatomy of Japan's 'Child Penalty' — The Triple Burden of Child Allowance, Education, and Housing
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Five Checkpoints for Spotting Graph Manipulation
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High School Tuition Gaps by Prefecture — Osaka ¥630K, Tokyo ¥490K, Rural Areas ¥457K
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Japan's 2030 Digital Textbook Mandate — Three Forces Behind the Cabinet Decision
Insights & Analysis
Causes of School Non-Attendance in Japan 2023 — 1 in 15 Junior High Students, 346,000 by Grade and Region
Insights & Analysis
Do You Know the 'Conditions' for Free University Tuition? — Income Limits, Multi-Child Requirements, and International Comparison
Practice Guides
Why Young Volunteers Leave — Structural Factors and Retention Design for NPOs
Practice Guides
Can Vocational Training Be Measured? — EBPM and the Evaluation Design of Workforce Development Policy
Insights & Analysis
What 'Tuition-Free' Doesn't Cover — The Education Gap Hidden by Japan's High School Tuition Subsidy
Labs
The Reproduction of Authority and Ignorance — The Structure of 'No Need to Know'
Insights & Analysis
The Day One Complaint Erased 2,100 Meals — The Iwaki Sekihan Disposal Incident and Structural Vulnerability in Public Administration
Insights & Analysis
Vocational Training in the Generative AI Era — Can Institutional Design Keep Up with Technology?
Insights & Analysis
The Disconnect Between Higher Education and the Labor Market — The Talent Universities Produce vs. the Talent Society Demands
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When Children's Tables Break Down — The Triple Crisis of Free School Lunches, Solitary Eating, and Kodomo Shokudo
Insights & Analysis
Is the 'Non-Striving Generation' Real? — Student Value Shifts, Hiring Mismatches, and Redesigning Social Participation
Insights & Analysis
Can 'Kankeijinko' Solve the Sustainability Problem of Student Community Work?
News
FY2025 Student Community Activity Report in Bunkyo-ku: Event Report
News