[EDLING:2240] Japan: Improving schooling for young foreign students

[Francis M. Hult]

Daily Yomiuri Online

Improving schooling for young foreign students

Yoshimasa Tezuka / Special to The Yomiuri Shimbun

More than 2 million foreigners live in Japan--a figure corresponding to the 
population of Tochigi Prefecture. Moreover, about 70,000 non-Japanese children 
attend public schools in this country. Approximately 20,000 of them need 
Japanese-language instruction, and their number is increasing every year. 

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