junior high school

81-year-old new junior high grad eager to continue...
Ritsuko Kenmoku stands before a bulletin board on March 18, at Arakawa Ward's 9th Junior High School with a sign that reads, "School is a place that becomes our hometown." (Takayuki Goto)
Ever since she was a young girl growing up in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Ritsuko Kenmoku had a thirst for knowledge. She loved going to school.
EDITORIAL: Report on Otsu teen's suicide offers...
Otsu Mayor Naomi Koshi, left, and members of the independent committee that has made an inquiry into the suicide of a 13-year-old junior high school student at a news conference on Jan. 31 (Yuki Nakazato)
An independent committee investigating the suicide of a 13-year-old junior high school student in Otsu who was brutally bullied by classmates has released a report criticizing...
Japanese high school, college females less sexually ...
The Asahi Shimbun
The percentage of Japanese high school girls and female college students who have had sex dropped for the first time in 38 years, a survey released on Aug. 4 found.
'Miscarriage club' film sheds light on what is...
Eisuke Naito (Photo by Noriki Ishitobi)
For his latest film, director Eisuke Naito shot "Sensei wo ryuzan saseru kai" (Let's make the teacher have a miscarriage club) because he wanted to bring out what was important ...
Teachers apprehensive as hip-hop is taught in...
Teachers dance in Tokyo on April 29. (Hiroshi Kawai)
The pioneers of hip-hop on the streets of New York probably never imagined that their cutting-edge stylings would become part of the compulsory curriculum in Japanese junior...
JUDO/ Teachers worry about compulsory martial arts...
A teacher instructs junior high school students in a judo class in Fukuoka. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A policy of making Japanese martial arts mandatory in junior high schools is prompting growing safety concerns among teachers and parents.
Lacking proper teachers, girls' schools struggle...
Students in their kendo class at a junior high school in Nagoya on Feb. 7 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Private junior high schools for girls are teaching the proper ways to bow and other forms of etiquette to prepare for the mandatory introduction of martial arts programs at...
School trips to disaster areas offer sobering sights
Students at the junior high school affiliated with Kanagawa University in Yokohama listen to an explanation of the damage caused by the tsunami in Minami-Sanriku. (The Asahi Shimbun)
As junior high school student Yu Maeda stood atop a 10-meter high coastal levee in Iwate Prefecture that the tsunami swept over on March 11 and looked out over the devastated...
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)
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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