A recent math competition in Japan included questions with numbers reaching trillions but the answers were found not on a computer or a calculator, but an abacus. Yes, that ancient counting tool made ...

I recently visited two large bookstores in Tokyo, Japan, to cover the local math culture, and I couldn't help but be amazed. While bookstores in Korea have at most two or three shelves for math books, ...

Japan ranks sixth in the number of internationally published math theses, the same position it has held since being surpassed by China in 2000, the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy ...

Japanese students remain among the top in the world according to the 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, which surveyed youth from 65 countries and regions. The science and ...

HAEBARU TOWN, Okinawa — A 6-year-old Japanese girl stood with her back to Defense Department students gathered Thursday to learn about the Japanese abacus, or soroban, at the Tsukazan Community Center ...

A new compilation of the illustrated geometry problems that decorated shrines in seventeenth-century Japan provides puzzles that are still intriguing today, finds Peter J. Lu. At the beginning of the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last month, a national cry of alarm greeted the announcement by the Organization for ...

The Edo-period pursuit of wasan, Japan’s domestic tradition of tackling mathematical problems, was one involving samurai and commoners, young and old alike. Historical records reveal that women and ...