Education experts have for years been lamenting the academic decline of young Japanese.
Teachers have complained that an increasing number of college students lack even the basics that should have been driven home in junior high school. Students’ math and science skills have markedly worsened, and many struggle to deal with fractions and decimal point calculations.
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