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Yura Inoue, a middle school student from Miyazaki, Japan, spent Thursday morning at Robert Abbott Middle School in Waukegan. Part of the time was in a math class. Despite limited knowledge of English, ...

Student Educational Exchange and Dialogue, or SEED, encourages teenagers from DODEA and Japan to learn about each other’s ...

MANSFIELD – Twenty-five junior high school students from Tamura, Japan, are visiting Mansfield this week along with their chaperones, staying with host families while they learn about Richland County ...

A survey of the preferred reading material among students in Japan has revealed paper books to be the clear winner, The Japan News reported. Interestingly, this applies to all student tiers such as ...

A good book should never go unread. So when Mitsuko Roberts began going through the many tomes in her Glendale home and tallied at least 200 Japanese books, it bothered her that so many were sitting ...

One of the most successful aspects of the 31-year sister city relationship between Hendersonville and Tsuru, Japan has been the student exchange program. In July 2015 the program will continue with ...