Education

Yuriko Sengoku, a third-year student at Den-en-chofu Futaba Junior High School in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, won the top prize in the final round of the H.I.H. Prince Takamado Trophy 70th All Japan Inter-Middle School English Oratorical Contest that was held in Tokyo on Nov. 30.

Japan’s industry ministry plans to name Hitotsubashi University Prof. Kunio Ito to head a panel on a review of the governance and remuneration systems at government-affiliated Japan Investment Corp., Jiji Press learned on Monday.

The finals of the 7th AEON Eco-1 Grand Prix environmental competition for Japanese high school students were held at Tokyo Big Sight in the city’s Koto Ward on Dec. 8. Again, as in previous years, I was among the judges examining entries and selecting winners of the annual prizes awarded by the Chiba-based multinational’s 1% Club Foundation and the Mainichi national newspaper.

The government on Friday formally approved the details of a program that will expand child care and higher education support, including free public preschool education for all children aged between 3 and 5, beginning in October 2019.

Japanese education companies are expanding their language offerings overseas, seeing business opportunities in meeting growing demand for Japanese-speaking foreign manpower as the nation opens its doors to workers from overseas.

Programming. This word may bring to mind many things — high-tech computers, complex coding and (for me at least) a mysterious world of unintelligible languages. What it does not normally make me think of are 4-year-olds.

A record 72.8 percent of college students in Japan have participated in corporate internship programs, a recent survey by Mynavi Corp. has found.

More and more schools are trying out cognitive behavioral therapy “games” to get kids to confront their everyday problems, and in turn lessen the likelihood they will cut school or bully others.

The Science Museum in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, was established in 1964 in Kitanomaru Koen park in central Tokyo by the Japan Science Foundation to foster young people who want to pursue the sciences. Its mission is to widely disseminate and heighten understanding of such areas as scientific and industrial technology.

Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine at a ceremony Monday in Stockholm, for his discovery of a protein on immune cells that paved the way for a new approach to cancer treatment.