elementary school

Fukushima's Hula Girls teach pupils positive...
The Hula Girls dance with pupils at municipal Minami Elementary School in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 17. (Gen Hashimoto)
May 19, 2013
FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima Prefecture—The famed Hula Girls have started sharing their experiences of the 2011 disasters at elementary schools across the nation, beginning with a...
Elementary school teacher suspended for verbally...
April 18, 2013
A teacher at an elementary school in western Tokyo has been suspended from work for verbally abusing her second-year pupils and using inappropriate language in her classroom,...
Communist Party sinks hooks in promising elementary ...
Students wear the traditional red scarves of the communist Young Pioneers at a school in Guangping, Hebei province, northern China, on Oct. 11, 2011. (AP file photo)
April 15, 2013
SHENYANG, China—In between sips of coffee, a woman in her 30s wearing an expensive-looking blue coat praised her sixth-grade daughter and recalled one of their happiest...
PREMIER LEAGUE (13): Communist Party sinks hooks in ...
Students wear the traditional red scarves of the communist Young Pioneers at a school in Guangping, Hebei province, northern China, on Oct. 11, 2011. (AP file photo)
April 02, 2013
Editor's note: This is the 13th in a series of articles on the Communist Youth League and the officials who have used the organization as their power base. This series will...
Ecoshift sets up solar power technical center at...
The gymnasium of Hamaichi Elementary School in Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, which was inundated on March 11, 2011, is still covered with layers of tsunami-deposited mud. (Akiko Nagashima)
June 22, 2012
HIGASHI-MATSUSHIMA, Miyagi Prefecture--On March 11, 2011, the first floor of Hamaichi Elementary School was deluged with water from the tsunami generated by the Great East...
Tohoku region reports sharp drop in children...
Children at Ota Elementary School in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, attend a ceremony to mark the start of a new term on Jan. 10, as the school returned to its original site for the first time in 10 months. (Yasuhito Watanabe)
March 22, 2012
The number of children attending municipal-run elementary schools in the disaster-stricken Tohoku region has fallen by almost 7,000 compared with a year ago, an Asahi Shimbun...
High radioactive cesium levels found at Tokyo school
Contaminated covers detected with highly concentrated levels of radioactive cesium at Horinouchi Elementary School in Tokyo's Suginami Ward
December 14, 2011
Radioactive cesium more than 10 times the standard for waste disposal has been detected on lawn covers that had been placed in a schoolyard from mid-March until early April at...
Disaster-stricken schools share experiences via...
Students talk about their experiences of the March 11 quake with students from Australia and New Zealand via the Internet at Yasawa Elementary School in tsunami-stricken Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 26. (Gen Hashimoto)
October 26, 2011
Through the magic of video conferencing, elementary schools in Japan, Australia and New Zealand on Oct. 26 linked up to share their experiences during a recent spate of...
18 years later, a reply from Hawaii to a message in ...
In the center, a copy of the message that Kota Tanaka, as an elementary school pupil in Minami-Osumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, released into the sea in 1993; and to the right, a reply that arrived from Hawaii on Sept. 29. (Tadao Okubo)
October 08, 2011
MINAMI-OSUMI, Kagoshima Prefecture--It might take only a few minutes to get a reply from an e-mail, but what about 18 years for sea mail?
Daughter receives letter from mom who died March 11
Konomi Ono, from right, her younger sister, Nozomi, and her father, Yoshinobu, read a letter written by her mother two years ago. (Masaru Komiyaji)
September 20, 2011
WATARI, Miyagi Prefecture -- On Sept. 18, 8-year-old Nozomi Ono received an unexpected and poignant letter, written by her mother, Yumiko, who was swept away by the tsunami...
Many tsunami-hit schools' evacuation guidelines...
Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, where 74 children died or went missing in the March 11 tsunami. The photo was taken March 29. (Shinichi Iizuka)
September 10, 2011
Nearly 40 percent of the 56 elementary and junior high schools in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, hardest hit by the March 11 disaster, did not specify evacuation...
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