While assistant language teachers play a critical role in English language education throughout Japan, many are struggling to make a living wage. Jesse Ali, 43, an ALT originally from California ...

now operates 28 preschools in Japan and three more overseas. She set up the Osaka-based Kinder Kids International Preschool chain 25 years ago to teach children in an English-speaking environment ...

Japanese tech companies are increasingly making a difficult but necessary pivot to an English-first policy in ... the world to account for a shortage in Japan. Tokyo start-up Rapyuta Robotics ...

In this unrelated file photo, children learn English from an assistant language teacher at a day care facility in the Saga Prefecture city of Genaki, in western Japan, on Feb. 13, 2015.

She was going into third grade when her family moved from Japan to Arlington ... also remembers the positive influence of her tutor. Miu Kikuchi was a high school student. Her help and attention ...