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Japan Embassy in Beijing promotes dinosaur-related tourist spots in Japan

The Japanese government pitches two tourist spots in Japan related to dinosaurs -- Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum and Junglia Okinawa theme park -- during an event held at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on March 1, 2026, for about 140 Chinese elementary school students and their guardians.

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Japan Embassy in Beijing promotes dinosaur-related tourist spots in Japan

The Japanese government pitches two tourist spots in Japan related to dinosaurs -- Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum and Junglia Okinawa theme park -- during an event held at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on March 1, 2026, for about 140 Chinese elementary school students and their guardians.

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Stabbing attack in fast-food restaurant

A child heads to an elementary school escorted by a guardian in Kitakyushu in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Fukuoka on Dec. 16, 2024, with a man believed responsible for stabbing two junior high school students in a local McDonald's restaurant two days earlier remaining at large. One of the two, a 15-year-old girl, died. ==Kyodo

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Water-splash summer event at Legoland Japan

Elementary school students participate in a summer-limited water-splash attraction at theme park Legoland Japan Resort in Nagoya, central Japan, on July 11, 2024, two days before it opens to the general public.

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Water-splash summer event at Legoland Japan

Elementary school students participate in a summer-limited water-splash attraction at theme park Legoland Japan Resort in Nagoya, central Japan, on July 11, 2024, two days before it opens to the general public.

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Afghan school kids collect waste paper for heating

TOKYO, Japan - Two elementary school students shoulder big bags full of waste paper collected before going to school as burning it serves as an important energy source at home without electricity nor gas in Afghanistan's Bamiyan district in this file photo taken on Oct. 21, 2012. (Photo by Hiromi Yasui)

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School kids perform picture-card show in Fukushima

SENDAI, Japan - Students of two elementary schools in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, perform a picture-card show, as seen in this file photo taken in June 2014, at a temporary housing unit in Nihonmatsu in the northeastern Japan prefecture hit by the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011.

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U.S. school shooting

NEWTOWN, United States - Junko Fischer, mother of two daughters who are pupils at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in the state of New York on Dec. 15, 2012. Her daughters -- Cate, 8 and Grace, 6 -- narrowly escaped a mass shooting Dec. 14 at the school where 26 students and teachers were killed.

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Shogi enjoying popularity among children as educational tool

TOKYO, Japan - Two finalists face off in a shogi match in a tournament for elementary school students at Toki Messe in Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture, on June 14.

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Elementary, junior high schools in ex-Yamakoshi reopened

NAGAOKA, Japan - Elementary and junior high school students of former Yamakoshi village, Niigata Prefecture, which was hit by a deadly earthquake two years ago, return to their newly built school in Nagaoka on Oct. 30.

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(2)17-year-old boy intrudes into elementary school, kills 1

OSAKA, Japan - Parents of students at Neyagawa Municipal Chuo Elementary School in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, rush to the school on Feb. 14 after a 17-year-old boy intruded into the school earlier in the day and stabbed a male teacher to death with a knife, and left two female school staff members injured, one of them seriously.

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17-year-old boy intrudes into elementary school, kills 1

OSAKA, Japan - Students at Neyagawa Municipal Chuo Elementary School in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, are evacuated to the school's grounds after a 17-year-old boy intruded into the school on Feb. 14 and stabbed a male teacher to death with a knife, and left two female school staff members injured, one of them seriously.

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Children visit homes on evacuated Miyakejima Island+

TOKYO, Japan - Children board a ship to leave Tokyo port on Aug. 4 for Miyakejima, an island evacuated for nearly two years due to volcanic activity. Seventy elementary and high school students left for the island south of Tokyo as the first group of children to temporarily return to the island since the evacuation.

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U.S. students send letters, stone to Ikeda school students

LOS ANGELES, United States - Photo shows Steve Heermann, a teacher at Helen Estock Elementary in Tustin, California, and some of his students who sent letters and a ''compassion stone'' to pupils and teachers at the Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture to encourage them after hearing about the June 8 attack in which eight pupils were stabbed to death and 13 others and two teachers injured.

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Education minister visits school where 8 children were slain

OSAKA, Japan - Education minister Atsuko Toyama arrives at Ikeda Elementary School, Osaka Prefecture, on July 5, where a man killed eight schoolchildren and injured 13 other students and two teachers last month. Toyama, the first member of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet to visit the scene of the June 8 slaying, prayed for the peace of the dead children's souls and met the state-run school's principal.

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Teacher-counselor pair visits Ikeda students

IKEDA, Japan - A teacher-counselor team June 11 begins visiting the homes of pupils involved in the June 8 massacre at the state-run Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, to assess their emotional and psychological states. The rampage by a knife-wielding man left eight schoolchildren dead and 15 others, including two teachers, injured.

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Children's Diet calls for better human relations

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R) delivers a speech before elementary pupils and junior high school students taking part in the second day of a two-day mock Diet session at the House of Councillors building in Tokyo on Aug. 3. Participants at the ''Children's Diet'' adopted a declaration calling for efforts to create better human relations and a cleaner environment.

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Online exchanges between Chinese, Japanese students enhance bilateral friendship

STORY: Online exchanges between Chinese, Japanese students enhance bilateral friendship DATELINE: Oct. 14, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:13 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: EDUCATION SHOTLIST: 1. various of Shanghai Road Primary School, Hexi District, Tianjin 2. various of the online exchange 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG RUILIN, Student, Shanghai Road Primary School, Hexi District, Tianjin 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): TAO XIANG, English teacher, Shanghai Road Primary School, Hexi District, Tianjin 5. various of the online exchange 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Japanese): KENJI TAKAHASHI, Chief Representative, Liaison Office for Kobe-Tianjin Trade-Economic Exchanges STORYLINE: Recently, elementary school students from Tianjin, China, and Kobe, Japan, met virtually, introducing their school lives and cultures to each other. Through the online activity, they deepened understanding about the other country and enhanced friendship between the two cities. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG RUILIN, Student, Shanghai Road Primary School, Hexi D

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Funerals arranged for Uvalde school shooting victims

STORY: Funerals arranged for Uvalde school shooting victims DATELINE: June 1, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:49 LOCATION: UVALDE, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the funeral STORYLINE: Funerals for the victims of Uvalde school shooting in Texas, the United States have been arranged, a week after the mass shooting claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers. VOICEOVER (English):WU XIAOLING, Xinhua correspondent "One week after the deadly Uvalde mass shooting, funeral arrangements have been made for most of the 21 students and teachers who lost their lives at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the United States. The funerals begin today on Tuesday and will run into the middle of June. This first funeral is for 10-year-old girl Amerie Jo Garza. She just celebrated her birthday early this month. Her family said she had a 'heart of gold,' liked swimming, drawing, and wanted to be an art teacher one day. She was one of the students who tried calling the police when the gunman entered the classro

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U.S. inaction on gun control fuels mass shooting tragedies: observers

STORY: U.S. inaction on gun control fuels mass shooting tragedies: observers DATELINE: May 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:28 LOCATION: Caracas CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of people mourningpics of the schoolvarious of street view in U.S.SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): ANTONIO GONZALEZ PLESSMAN, Human rights activist in VenezuelaSOUNDBITE 2 (English): STEPHEN NDEGWA, United States International University (USIU-Africa) in Kenya STORYLINE: A day of turmoil and grief gripped America's public schools Thursday, as thousands of students staged walkouts across the country to protest the Uvalde shooting in Texas that killed 19 elementary school children and two adults on Tuesday. Some observers say that the U.S. government's inaction on gun control has led to the recurrent gun violence in the country. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): ANTONIO GONZALEZ PLESSMAN, Human rights activist in Venezuela "Now, what is the truth behind this? The real face of the United States is that the country is the primary producer of guns

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Insecure Home: Americans on the killing of America

STORY: Insecure Home: Americans on the killing of America DATELINE: May 28, 2022 LENGTH: 0:03:53 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the U.S. 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LELUBYS, New York resident 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): JENAY, New York resident 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): LINDA TAMM, New Yorker living in France 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): MARIAM ARTHUR, U.S. citizen in Cambodia 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): LINDA TAMM, New Yorker living in France 7. SOUNDBITE 6 (English): ANN JEWKES, New York resident 8. SOUNDBITE 7 (English): JAMES MCKAY, U.S. citizen in Kazakhstan 9. SOUNDBITE 8 (English): MARIAM ARTHUR, U.S. citizen in Cambodia STORYLINE: On May 24, an 18-year-old man opened fire in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing at least 19 students and two adults. Ten days ago, another mass shooting happened at the Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York, leaving 10 black people dead and three others injured. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LELUBYS, New York resident "That's heartbreak

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Gun violence "probably gonna get worse": NYC residents

STORY: Gun violence "probably gonna get worse": NYC residents DATELINE: May 26, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:01 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JENAY, New York resident 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): LELUBYS, New York resident 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): JENAY, New York resident 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): LELUBYS, New York resident 5. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): ANN JEWKES, New York resident STORYLINE: An 18-year-old man opened fire on Tuesday in Texas, killing at least 19 students and two adults at Robb elementary school in Uvalde. Ten days before the shooting, another mass shooting happened at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, leaving 10 black people dead and three others injured. Many U.S. citizens we spoke to expressed shock and dismay at the latest shootings, while voicing doubt that the rampant gun violence in the country could be reined in anytime soon. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JENAY, New York resident "It's terrible. Yeah. It feels like, honestly, there's mass shooting a

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U.S. politicians call for action on gun control

STORY: U.S. politicians call for action on gun control DATELINE: May 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:48 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of buildings of U.S. government 2. various of the shoot sites 3. various of the tweets of Barack Obama 4. SOUNDBITE (English): CHRIS MURPHY, U.S. Senator STORYLINE: American politicians have called for action on gun control in the wake of two mass shootings that happened recently. An 18-year-old man opened fire on Tuesday in Texas, killing at least 19 students and two adults at Robb elementary school in Uvalde. Ten days ago, another mass shooting happened at the Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York, leaving 10 black people dead and three others injured. Former president Barack Obama tweeted that "shootings in Buffalo offer a tragic reminder of the price we pay for refusing to curb the easy access to guns." "It's long past time for action, any kind of action. And it's another tragedy a quieter but no less tragic one -- for families to wait anot

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Peruvian students of public schools return to classrooms after COVID-19 delay

STORY: Peruvian students of public schools return to classrooms after COVID-19 delay DATELINE: March 15, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:48 LOCATION: Lima CATEGORY: EDUCATION SHOTLIST: 1. various of students returning to school 2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): GLORIA SALDANA, Director of Education Management, IE Brisas de Villa School 3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): KEVIN LOZANO, Student at IE Brisas de Villa School STORYLINE: More than 4 million students from public elementary schools in 18 regions of Peru began to return to classrooms on Monday after in-person classes had been suspended for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the schools that reopened its doors was IE Brisas de Villa School in the capital city of Lima. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): GLORIA SALDANA, Director of Education Management, IE Brisas de Villa School "After two years of the pandemic and everything that has happened, this return is, as we call it, 'An Education Party.' Here in the Chorrillos District, this is characterized by happiness and commitment." Kevi

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(2)17-year-old boy intrudes into elementary school, kills 1

OSAKA, Japan - Parents of students at Neyagawa Municipal Chuo Elementary School in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, rush to the school on Feb. 14 after a 17-year-old boy intruded into the school earlier in the day and stabbed a male teacher to death with a knife, and left two female school staff members injured, one of them seriously. (Kyodo)

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17-year-old boy intrudes into elementary school, kills 1

OSAKA, Japan - Students at Neyagawa Municipal Chuo Elementary School in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, are evacuated to the school's grounds after a 17-year-old boy intruded into the school on Feb. 14 and stabbed a male teacher to death with a knife, and left two female school staff members injured, one of them seriously. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima school holds 1st graduation ceremony since nuclear crisis

Two graduating pupils at a public primary school formerly in the evacuated town of Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, are seen off by teachers and current students on March 23, 2015, after a graduation ceremony held at a temporary school building in the prefecture's Iwaki city. They became the first students to graduate from the Futaba Kita Elementary School since the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the area in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, where a man in his 50s stabbed about 20 people, most of them elementary school students, with knives in Kawasaki near Tokyo, killing two on May 28, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Elementary, junior high schools in ex-Yamakoshi reopened

NAGAOKA, Japan - Elementary and junior high school students of former Yamakoshi village, Niigata Prefecture, which was hit by a deadly earthquake two years ago, return to their newly built school in Nagaoka on Oct. 30. (Kyodo)

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Deadly truck crash in eastern Japan

People visit the site of a fatal traffic accident in Yachimata in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 29, 2021, where the previous day a truck driven by a drunk man crashed into elementary school students, killing two and leaving three others seriously injured.

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Deadly truck crash in eastern Japan

People visit the site of a fatal traffic accident in Yachimata in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 29, 2021, where the previous day a truck driven by a drunk man crashed into elementary school students, killing two and leaving three others seriously injured.

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Deadly truck crash in eastern Japan

Flowers are laid in Yachimata in Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 29, 2021, at the site where the previous day a truck driven by a drunk man crashed into elementary school students, killing two and leaving three others seriously injured.

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Enrollment ceremony at Fukushima school

IWAKI, Japan - New first graders (front row) at an elementary school in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, observe a moment of silence during their entrance ceremony on April 6, 2011, for two students from the school who died in a tsunami after the March 11 earthquake. The school, which is renting space in another school facility in the city, saw a decline in enrollment as many residents have evacuated following the disaster and ongoing nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

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Reopening of school after coronavirus closure

Elementary school students sit in a class on May 25, 2020, after their school in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, reopened for the first time in about one and a half months since the coronavirus pandemic necessitated its closure. Students are divided in two groups and attend classes every other day to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Some schools resume in Japan

Students wash their hands as their elementary school in Shizuoka, central Japan, reopens on March 16, 2020, about two weeks after shutting to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Some schools in Japan resume classes after virus-prompted closures

Students head to an elementary school in Shizuoka, central Japan, on March 16, 2020, as some elementary and junior high schools in Japan resumed classes about two weeks after shutting to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Some schools in Japan resume classes after virus-prompted closures

Students head to an elementary school in Shizuoka, central Japan, on March 16, 2020, as some elementary and junior high schools in Japan resumed classes about two weeks after shutting to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Some schools in Japan resume classes after virus-prompted closures

Students head to an elementary school in Shizuoka, central Japan, on March 16, 2020, as some elementary and junior high schools in Japan resumed classes about two weeks after shutting to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Month after stabbing rampage near Tokyo

Caritas Elementary School students get on a bus while being accompanied by adults in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on June 28, 2019, a month after a stabbing rampage near the bus stop that claimed the lives of two and injured 18 others, most of them girls attending the school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Month after stabbing rampage near Tokyo

Caritas Elementary School students get on a bus while being accompanied by adults in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on June 28, 2019, a month after a stabbing rampage near the bus stop that claimed the lives of two and injured 18 others, most of them girls attending the school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing rampage near Tokyo

Students are accompanied by a woman on their way to Caritas Elementary School in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on June 5, 2019. A total of 20 people, most of them girls attending the school, were attacked by a knife-wielding man in the city on May 28, leaving two dead and the suspect dead in suicide. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan gov't meeting following stabbing rampage

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (3rd from R) speaks at his office in Tokyo on May 29, 2019, during a government meeting called after a stabbing rampage in Kawasaki the previous day in which two people were killed and 17 were injured, most of them elementary school students. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan gov't meeting following stabbing rampage

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) speaks at his office in Tokyo on May 29, 2019, during a government meeting called after a stabbing rampage in Kawasaki the previous day in which two people were killed and 17 were injured, most of them elementary school students. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan gov't meeting following stabbing rampage

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) speaks at his office in Tokyo on May 29, 2019, during a government meeting called after a stabbing rampage in Kawasaki the previous day in which two people were killed and 17 were injured, most of them elementary school students. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing rampage near Tokyo

Flowers are placed on May 28, 2019, at the site in Kawasaki near Tokyo, where a man in his 50s stabbed about 20 people, most of them elementary school students, with knives earlier in the day, killing two. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing rampage near Tokyo

People pray on May 28, 2019, at the site in Kawasaki near Tokyo, where a man in his 50s stabbed about 20 people, most of them elementary school students, with knives earlier in the day, killing two. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

Women pray on May 28, 2019, at the site in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, where a man in his 50s went on a stabbing spree. The man earlier in the day stabbed about 20 people with knives, most of them elementary school students, killing two. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Stabbing spree near Tokyo

A woman places flowers on May 28, 2019, at the site in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, where a man in his 50s went on a stabbing spree. The man earlier in the day stabbed about 20 people with knives, most of them elementary school students, killing two. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe after stabbing spree near Tokyo

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on May 28, 2019, after a man in his 50s stabbed about 20 people, most of them elementary school students, with knives in Kawasaki near Tokyo, killing two. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 schools return to Fukushima town 6 yrs after disaster

Students of two elementary schools and one junior high school attend a joint ceremony in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 6, 2017, to mark the resumption of classes. For the first time in six years, the students have returned to the town, following the lifting of the central government's evacuation order that had been in place due to the Fukushima Daiichi plant-triggered nuclear radiation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo