On a humid June morning in Tottori Prefecture in western Japan, hundreds of would-be teachers filed into exam halls to ...

Uchiyama Seichi began re-evaluating his life in 2011. In March of that year, the Tohoku Earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan and triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people.

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

Japan’s marginal villages could be living on borrowed time as populations dwindle, but tourism is bringing respite. Here's how. Yoko Era and husband traded their office jobs for a life in rural Asuka ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

When Lexi Smith, a 24-year-old teacher from Atlanta, began feeling burned out by long hours and low pay, she decided to make a change. Smith told CNBC that she "wasn't quite loving the school system" ...

University Hall, the main lecture building at International Christian University. Formerly part of the Nakajima Aircraft Company, the building houses classrooms and the Institute for Educational ...

There were a couple of noteworthy caveats. The unemployment rate increased to a four-year peak of 4.4 percent, suggesting ...

Thimphu, January 23, 2019 – Today, the World Bank and the Royal Government of Bhutan signed a new project to support Bhutan in creating jobs for its young people and promoting broader economic ...

Members of a university kanto club perform in Akita Prefecture, Japan. Tradition and religion dictate that only men are allowed to be sashite or pole carriers. Anthony Kuhn is NPR's correspondent ...