The education ministry has kicked off full-scale efforts to curb overwork among schoolteachers and address a longtime problem for educators.
A fiscal 2016 survey by the ministry found that about 30 percent of public elementary school teachers and some 60 percent of junior high school teachers worked more than 60 hours per week, with work hours increasing in all job categories from the previous survey in fiscal 2006.
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