For two weeks in April, 42 students from Yamate Gakuin High School in Yokohama, Japan, along with three chaperones spent time in Bloomington, shadowing at Bloomington High School North. Since 1969, ...

Yura Inoue, a middle school student from Miyazaki, Japan, spent Thursday morning at Robert Abbott Middle School in Waukegan. Part of the time was in a math class. Despite limited knowledge of English, ...

IN THE Middle Ages, and especially in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a curious unofficial order of wandering monks and scholars came into existence. They roamed about the known world, “testing ...

Tomoshibi means small light in Japanese, and for 21 years, that's exactly what the Tomoshibi library provided for the Japanese community in Bellevue. Until it ceased operation last May, the library ...

Japanese students from Yamate Gakuin High School participated in a two-week homestay program at Bloomington High School North. The students experienced American culture, attended events, and went on ...