Wandering the streets of Tokyo’s Roppongi district on a wet night, you know where film director Ridley Scott got the inspiration for his dystopian Los Angeles in Blade Runner. Multicolored neon; ...

WASHINGTON -- Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is trying to revive the country's flagging economy, and we could all learn from the exercise. You may recall that, in the 1980s, Japan was widely ...

This blog has looked at lessons education policymakers can learn from high–performing nations in Asia. Today I want to share an example for classroom teachers. Part of the definition of global ...

Valiant Japanese survivors of the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami can give all of us a lesson in composure and civility as they try to piece together their torn lives in the midst of one of ...

Japan is not clamoring for the lessons of the Nazi Holocaust to be taught to its children, but that is the passion of Fumiko Ishioka. She is the sole reason that the life and death of Hana Brady, a 13 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Japan, Northeast Asia, and U.S. policy toward the region. Abe spent some time situating his comments in the larger flow of ...

In their new book Teaching Better, Brad and Genevieve Ermeling describe their first-hand experience with Japanese lesson study and the important lessons they learned from collaborating with colleagues ...

Japan is flush with national pride this week, thanks to Kei Nishikori, the tennis phenom who knocked off seemingly indestructible Novak Djokovic to reach the U.S. Open finals and become the first ...