Editor's note: The ongoing discussions about Japan's "Lost Decades," a period of prolonged economic stagnation spanning 30 years, have sparked debates on whether Japan indeed lost momentum for three ...

This blog has looked at lessons education policymakers can learn from high–performing nations in Asia. Today I want to share an example for classroom teachers. Part of the definition of global ...

An aerial view of Oshima-Mura, Japan, after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck the area in March 2011. (TNS) — In the wake of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, ...

Japan is not clamoring for the lessons of the Nazi Holocaust to be taught to its children, but that is the passion of Fumiko Ishioka. She is the sole reason that the life and death of Hana Brady, a 13 ...

I don’t know who Hiroko Tabuchi is but he wrote one hell of an article for The New York Times. In the space of three pages he succinctly traces the history of the Japanese banking crisis and draws ...

TOKYO — The face masks, thick dark haze and pollution warnings plaguing residents of China’s capital this week once were a fact of life for people living in Japan’s biggest industrial cities. Japanese ...

There are "innovators" such as those who figure out a new topping for ice cream and then there are major innovators, who help substantially change entire fields and the world for the better. Each year ...