Do Japanese kids really sleep on the floor? Are the floors really made from grass (rice straw)? Do they roll up their beds?

The “baby hatch” door at the city hospital in southwestern Japan that Koichi Miyatsu was placed in the care of was etched in his memory when he was 3 years old. Miyatsu, now a 21-year-old university ...

“I now appreciate how radical it is for us as women to think about one of the most fundamental parts of our destinies in this way,” she wrote alongside a photo of herself holding the infant in ...

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Try these discussions to improve your speaking and listening. There are 20 questions in each activity - 10 for Student A and 10 for Student B. You can print out the worksheet. You can listen to the ...

Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...