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Cram school’s message would be ordinarily be inspiring, but takes on an inadvertently dark, potentially dangerous atmosphere.
Survey sees if high school students know what they can and can’t do under the accelerated end of childhood.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology says that in three years teachers might get their holidays to themselves.
Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education continues mental gymnastics and insists that undercuts cause harmful incidents and accidents.
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Pocari shows they’re the kings of both sports hydration and sentimentality — and want other school kids to get singing, too.
Proposed revision, which allows for consummation of “serious relationships,” would actually be stricter than existing ordinance.
Pays thoughtful youth a compliment while demonstrating how sometimes “kindness flies like a boomerang.”
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