The recession is hitting students who have lost their fathers and rely on donations to go to high school or university.
Rie Sakai, a 20-year-old science and engineering sophomore at Nihon University in Tokyo, took part in a fundraising drive in October in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, and found a decline in the number of passersby responding to calls for donations.
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