Losing an Edge, Japanese Envy Indiaâs Schools
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Suffering a crisis of confidence these days about its ability to compete with its emerging Asian rivals, Japan is in the midst of a growing craze for Indian education.
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Video-game machines, long seen by parents as a formidable enemy in the battle to get their children to study, are advancing into the Japanese classroom.
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NEW DELHI, Feb. 12 -- Two fatal shootings and a stabbing in Indian schools have rattled parents and teachers here, forcing India to confront an issue it had previously known mainly through TV news footage from the United States.
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The United States gave India nearly everything it wanted in a landmark nuclear energy deal, but that may not be enough for a vocal chorus of Indian critics.
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TOKYO -- With a surfeit of the old and a shortage of the young, Japan is on course for a population collapse unlike any in human history.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bolts. Blame the system.
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The report says students are catching up to their worldwide counterparts but fourth-graders are not. By Michael Dobbs / Washington Post.
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The me-first attitude that makes the social networking site so successful in the United States may not play well in Japan, a more socially integrated society. By the Associated Press.
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The country's students are up in arms about a new government educational quota policy. But is merit all that counts in such a rigidly divided country?
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In Japan today, China has come to be regarded as a partner by the business class and a rival, if not outright adversary, by the political class.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is working to woo Japanese investors, hoping that a warming political relationship will add sparkle to lackluster economic ties.
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NEW DELHI -- With its burgeoning economy and muscular military, India is becoming a valued prize in the growing rivalry between the United States and China.
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Only a small proportion of Indian students have access to a first-rate higher education. The solution may be to allow foreign universities in
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh headed to Japan to seek support from the major civilian atomic power for the controversial US-India nuclear cooperation pact.
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India faces the difficulty of educating its children in public schools that have sunk to spectacularly low levels.
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TOKYO  For a country that shut out foreigners for hundreds of years, Japan has proved strangely attractive for problem migrants of late.
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The pace of change in India is supercharged because the country is catching up to, and in some cases leapfrogging, developments that took decades to play out elsewhere.