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Assitant Language Teacher

The Kasama City Board of Education is taking applications for Assistant Language Teachers for immediate and April starts. Kasama is located in Ibaraki prefecture approximately an hour and a half from Tokyo by the Joban Line. Kasama is famous for its ceramics and thriving arts community and Kasama’s incorporated town of Iwama is known as [...]

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High court sides with Tokyo on anthem

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and board of education did not violate the Constitution by requiring school teachers and other staff to stand when the Hinomaru flag is raised and the national anthem sung during school events, the Tokyo High Court ruled Friday, reversing a lower court decision. A three-judge panel led by Hiromu Tsuzuki acted [...]

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Suicide of girl, 14, laid to bullying

A 14-year-old girl jumped off an apartment building and killed herself last month in a possible attempt to escape bullying at school, the board of education in Kiyose, Tokyo, said Wednesday. “I don’t want to go to school anymore. Everybody else looks like my enemies,” the second-year student at a city-run junior high school said [...]

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School lets boy with gender identity disorder try attending as girl

An 8-year-old boy who suffers mental woes caused by gender identity disorder has attended a public elementary school as a girl since last fall, a local board of education in Saitama Prefecture said Friday. The decision was made to make school life comfortable for the second-grader, who has had a desire to “become a girl” [...]

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English instructors hired illegally: union

A labor union of foreign workers requested Monday that the Aichi prefectural board of education address the concerns of English-language instructors at public schools who they say are working under illegal contracts. The General Union said that foreign teaching assistants in 16 school districts in the prefecture are contracted by private language schools or other [...]

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