Japan performs quite well in its educational standards.

The education
system in Japan is divided into five sections. These are as follows:
 Nursery school
 Kindergarten
 Elementary school
 Junior high school
 University
In Japan, compulsory education starts at age six and ends at age
fifteen at the end of junior high school.
The school year starts in April and ends the following year in March.
Many Japanese schools have a three-semester system. These are as
follows:
 First semester: From April to August
 Second semester: From September to December
 Third semester: From January to March
To get a leg up on the academic competition, many Japanese students
also attend cram school. These are specialized schools to help
students improve their grades or pass entrance examinations. These
extended programs start after school. Depending on the program,
they can end well into the evening.
National and public primary and lower secondary schools do not
charge tuition, because after world war 2 education became more
democratized, to make education more accessible to low-income
families, making it essentially free for all students in Japan. Foreign
children aren’t required to enroll in school in Japan, but they can also
attend elementary and junior high school for free.
However, if you wish to send your kids to international schools, you
need to pay a good amount of fees.
Although high school isn’t compulsory, 99% of students nationwide
pursue upper secondary education after graduating from junior high
school.
There are public and private schools across Japan. Private schools
require a high tuition.
All public schools are funded equally. Moreover, they have the same
curriculum, and all schools have the same educational expectations
nationwide.
Exams are a serious part of the Japanese education system. They not
only measure a student’s overall learning of the material but also
what schools they’ll be able to attend, starting from elementary
school.
Students who want to attend junior high school, high school, and
university must take entrance exams to get into those schools. And,
of course, the very best schools require the highest test scores.
University entrance exams in Japan can also be particularly tough.
Every year, about half a million students across Japan sign up to take
university entrance exams in February. Students who pass can look
forward to acceptance from a university they applied to.
After passing out of high school, students who fail to get admission to
their desired academic institution for the next level of education are
called Rōnin. Rōnin is an old Japanese term for a masterless samurai.
Such students must study outside the school system for self-study to
prepare for the entrance test during the next academic year.
However, the Ronin students have the option to take admission in
yobikō. Yobiko are privately run schools that prepare you for college
admissions.
Even if you fail to get admission during the next 2-3 years, you can
keep preparing because even the good universities will accept you
once you pass the admission test.