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04-15-2007, 07:09 PM
asahi At the only night junior high school in the Tokai region, in and around Aichi Prefecture, a curious statistic has emerged. This year, non-Japanese students make up more than half of the student body at Chugaku Yakan Gakkyu in Nagoya--although that in itself is hardly a remarkable feat, given there are only 10 students enrolled. But the tiny school has become an emblem of a wider trend among the nation's night junior high schools, where the number of students born overseas is growing rapidly.
Of the 10 new students admitted to the school here, seven have foreign nationalities, including Filipino, Brazilian, Chinese and Peruvian. It was the first time in seven years that the number of new students of the night school reached 10. Their ages range from 15 to 69. During an entrance ceremony at the Aichi Prefectural Education Hall, where the night school is held, one of the new students, Agnes Nozaki, 49, a Filipina, said: "I can study how to read and write Japanese by myself. But I don't know Japanese history or culture."
Read more of the article here... (http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200704140097.html )
Of the 10 new students admitted to the school here, seven have foreign nationalities, including Filipino, Brazilian, Chinese and Peruvian. It was the first time in seven years that the number of new students of the night school reached 10. Their ages range from 15 to 69. During an entrance ceremony at the Aichi Prefectural Education Hall, where the night school is held, one of the new students, Agnes Nozaki, 49, a Filipina, said: "I can study how to read and write Japanese by myself. But I don't know Japanese history or culture."
Read more of the article here... (http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200704140097.html )