...them even tell us to sack such-and-such a person and appoint a friend of theirs to that position."A higher education ministry official, who asked that his name not be used, agreed."Members of parliament waste 50 percent of our time...

...village in the worst carnage since an Islamic insurgency began. Japan's Supreme Court ruled that the country's Education Ministry broke the law by removing mention of a Japanese World War II atrocity from historian Saburo Ienaga's high school...

...written in a neat row,'' said Mari Shimizu, an office worker who practices calligraphy. According to the Education Ministry, by the end of sixth grade Japanese children are required to know about 1,000 characters. Kanji study, though...