More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city on Sunday, in what the local ...

Twin brothers who grew up playing football together in Niigata Prefecture are about to realize their childhood dream of ...

Nakano, in his first season as a professional footballer has scored 18 goals in 19 SPL and Singapore Cup matches for Albirex ...

Elementary, junior high and high school students accounted for 527, the highest level since records began in 1980, with the number staying above 500 for the third straight year. Of them ...

Erik Buhrow dreams of retiring in Japan. Until then, he'll rent out the akiya, or abandoned home, to other Americans who want to try living there.

Schools, childcare settings and third-level institutions across Ireland are making preparations to close on Friday due to the Storm Éowyn red wind warning. Paul Crone, director of the National ...

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ALMOST all schools in Ireland will be forced to stay shut on Friday morning as brutal gusts batter the country in a "historic storm". Schools in ALL 22 counties under a Storm Eowyn red weather ...

The young royal, 11, is currently a pupil at Lambrook preparatory school in Berkshire, but the summer after he turns 13, he's set to move to his next school. Over the past 18 months, Prince ...

Sub-zero and below-average temperatures, as well as dangerous wind chills, have forced schools across the country to shut down to ensure the safety of their students. Newsweek has compiled a list ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Labour’s proposals to reform the English schools system, including a reduction in freedoms enjoyed by ...

People in a community in Niigata Prefecture ... safety and health of their families in the year ahead. A junior high school student who took part in the event said that it was cold, but the ...