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 ...

Wandering the streets of Tokyo’s Roppongi district on a wet night, you know where film director Ridley Scott got the inspiration for his dystopian Los Angeles in Blade Runner. Multicolored neon; ...

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, ...

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 ...

In their new book Teaching Better, Brad and Genevieve Ermeling describe their first-hand experience with Japanese lesson study and the important lessons they learned from collaborating with colleagues ...

In 2011, Japan was one of the most prepared countries in the world for a massive earthquake. Yet when a mega-quake hit Japan last March, sparking a huge tsunami, it was shockingly devastating. Now, ...

Policy decisions by central banks – such as an accommodative monetary policy which is designed to stimulate economic growth by lowering short-term interest rates to make borrowing money less expensive ...

Japan is flush with national pride this week, thanks to Kei Nishikori, the tennis phenom who knocked off seemingly indestructible Novak Djokovic to reach the U.S. Open finals and become the first ...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story attributed a quote to the incorrect Subaru executive. It should have attributed the quote to Kazuyuki Muneta, senior general manager of Subaru’s ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Japan only needed a small-scale triumph over imperial China to fulfill its aims in 1894-1895. It saw no need to overthrow the Qing regime, occupy China or even ...