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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kyoto University of Education Professor Yasufumi Kuroda shows a website with Ukrainian math video content in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward on April 27, 2022. (Mainichi/Norikazu Chiba) An educational math video ...