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PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 5, 2018
Rich or poor, every child has a right to a quality education
Economic disparities should not be allowed to create a gap in the educational quality of public schools.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FUKUSHIMA FILE
Jun 15, 2015
Quake-proofing efforts lag at Fukushima schools
Education ministry data released earlier this month showed that only 84.9 percent of public elementary and junior high school buildings in Fukushima Prefecture had been quake-proofed as of April 1, 10.7 points below the national average.
EDITORIALS
Dec 10, 2014
A slippery slope in education
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pushing school reforms that give the government a greater role in school children's 'moral' education.
JAPAN
Apr 18, 2014
Exam scoring errors turn up
Tokyo's education bureau announced Friday it found more than 130 cases of scoring errors on high school entrance examinations for 2014 that resulted in erroneous rejections at four schools.
EDITORIALS
Jan 18, 2014
School costs gap wider than ever
A fiscal 2012 education ministry survey of parents throughout Japan reports that total spending for a child going to private schools from kindergarten through senior high school came to ¥16.77 million on average, significantly more than the ¥5 million for a child going to public schools.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2013
Tokyo-area teachers of English face three-month honing home-stay abroad
The Tokyo Board of Education is planning to require that all young English teachers at its junior and high schools study and live in English-speaking countries for three months.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on