Foreign Minister Taro Kono will go to Okinawa this weekend to propose that Japanese students in Okinawa be allotted places at American schools on U.S. military bases to improve their English skills and better prepare them for university, government sources said.
Japanese children are permitted to study at the U.S.-administered schools if there is vacancy, but few have been accepted.
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