but now I have a friend in Hokkaido named Kenta. Let's be good friends." Below are translated excerpts from Kenta's book report: The part that struck me the most was when the teacher, who had ...

“The court handed down the ruling by properly taking into account the legal provision,” said a former high school teacher in Hokkaido, one of the plaintiffs, at a news conference after the rulin ...

HIGASHIKAWA, Hokkaido--The nation’s first public-owned Japanese language school has employed uncertified teachers in a town praised as a model case for economic revitalization through acceptance ...