Japan Press Weekly

(July 8, 2014)

Gov’t pushes Univ. of Tokyo to support weapons research and development

(July 5, 2014)

High school teachers call for cancellation of study meeting at SDF base

(June 16, 2014)

What was the prewar Imperial Rescript on Education?

(May 19 & 23, 2014)

Education minister uses FB to monitor school education

(May 17, 2014)

Bill to strengthen political control over education passed through Diet committee

(May 14, 2014)

JCP publishes appeal opposing adverse revision of education-related laws

(April 26, 2014)

Abe gov’t proposes bill to destroy university autonomy

(April 19, 2014)

Let’s resist Abe-style educational reform: Shii

(March 15, 2014)

Education minister requires local town to use textbook glorifying Japan’s aggressive war

(February 28, 2014)

High school students in Tokyo forced to participate in disaster drill with SDF

(February 23, 2014)

Student loan collection agency like a cold-blooded debt collector

(February 21, 2014)

Abe seeks boards of Education that will allow authorities to control education: Shii

(February 21, 2014)

6.9-million citizens want tuition-free private high schools

(February 18, 2014)

Create grant-type scholarship system at once: JCP Miyamoto

(January 29, 2014)

Abe Cabinet to teach in schools gov’t stance on Senkaku and Takeshima

(December 21, 2013)

Education Ministry wants schoolbooks to include gov’t opinions

(December 14, 2013)

Gov’t panel recommends control of education by power

(November 28, 2013)

JCP opposes abolition of free high school education program

(October 29, 2013)

Saga Pref. to have high school students buy tablet PCs

(October 19, 2013)

Education ministry imposes pro-constitutional revision textbook on local schools

(September 27, 2013)

JCP in Osaka demands retraction of forcible ‘Kimigayo’ order on school teachers

(August 30, 2013)

Gov’t tries to set income limit to free high school education system

(August 24&27, 2013)

Education board withdraws request for access limitation on ‘Barefoot Gen’

(August 23, 2013)

Facing education board pressure, no schools choose textbook depicting coercion of Hinomaru and Kimigayo

(August 22, 2013)

Civil groups protest against restrictions on student access to ‘Barefoot Gen’

(August 21, 2013)

JCP assembly members demand retraction of access restrictions on ‘Barefoot Gen’

(August 15, 2013)

JCP demands halt to recall of supplementary text depicting 1923 mass murder of Koreans

(July 27, 2013)

Abe’s education policy strategist attacks SMAP’s hit song for encouraging children to not compete

(July 25 & 26, 2013)

Tokyo gov’t sends high school students to SDF camp for ‘emergency drill’

(July 10, 2013)

Signature campaign launched against interference in schools’ textbook selection

(July 13, 2013)

Teachers and parents launch signature campaign for better educational environment

(July 8, 2013)

Attacks on Japanese history textbooks increasing

(June 28, 2013)

Osaka public school principal from private sector suddenly resigns

(June 27 & 28, 2013)

Power shouldn’t interfere in choice of textbooks by schools: JCP Tokyo

(June 26, 2013)

LDP scheming to force schools to use textbook glorifying past war of aggression

(June 20 & 22, 2013)

Intrusive moral education part of anti-school bullying law

(April 11, 2013)

Respect the right to know for families of bullied suicides: JCP Miyamoto

(April 6 & 9, 2013)

No personal alarms provided North Korean students in Machida City

(April 1&2, 2013)

Gov’t should stop harsh collection of scholarship loans: JCP Miyamoto

(March 2, 2013)

Total of 8.63 million call for better learning environment

(February 20, 2013)

Gov’t to exempt North Korean schools from tuition-free program

(February 28, 2013)

Top-down moral education is ineffective

(February 27, 2013)

Society with lack of access to higher education for economic reasons has no future

(February 15, 2013)

Kanagawa governor suspends subsidy for North Korean schools

(February 8, 2013)

Don’t exempt Korean schools from tuition-free program: students demand

(February 3, 2013)

Power company promotes nuclear power ‘safety myth’ in school

(January 31, 2013)

High school students and parents urge education board to work for elimination of physical punishment in school

(January 21 and 22, 2013)

Osakans criticize mayor’s call to cancel high school entrance exam

(January 18, 2013)

Teachers strive to defend disabled children’s right to learn

(January 11, 2013)

Physical punishment at school is ‘permissible’: Osaka mayor