
Issues | THE ZEIT GIST Mar 5, 2013
Juku: an unnecessary evil or vital steppingstone to success?
by Louise George Kittaka
For the past year, Tokyo sixth-grader Manami has had dinner at home an average of four times a week. The rest of the time she has had to make do with a juku-ben, a boxed dinner prepared by her mother and consumed between classes ...