Education ministry drafts guidelines favoring mix of paper, digital textbooks

Japan Today19 October 2026, 21:46 UTCJapan

Japan's education ministry has drafted guidelines making a hybrid of paper and digital textbooks standard from the 2030 academic year, with digital content playing a supplemental role, sources…

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