Hat Yai Flooding Catastrophe a Massive Blow to Thailand’s PM Anutin To stay competitive in a global economy, countries often look to education. In Northeast Asia, an intense pursuit of education has ...

I spent a year teaching English in Japan. The experience was thrilling and a total culture shock. Living in Japan as an American is a 24-hour immersive learning experience. I returned to the US for my ...

Outdated teaching methods and the rise of language translation apps have made most Japanese less inclined to learn English, ...

The number of elementary and junior high schools in Japan teaching classes in foreign languages, mostly English, has soared in the past five years. Experts say more parents want their children to ...

The government wants students to improve their English skills. Cultural differences provide the biggest hurdle. May 13, 2011 In accordance with changes in Ministry of Education standards made back in ...

Pursuing a career as an English teacher is one of the fastest ways to live and work in Japan—provided you meet the requirements. However, the drawbacks to this convenience are the industry’s ...

In Japan, students start learning English as a mandatory subject from the third grade of elementary school. As part of their studies, pupils take part in English conversation classes where a ...

JAPAN is commonly categorized as an English-as-a-foreign-language country. In contemporary paradigms of English studies, it belongs to what is known as the Expanding Circle, in contrast to the United ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, many foreign workers came to Japan because the economy was strong and there were not enough Japanese ...