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A typical classroom in a Japanese junior high school. The lower secondary school covers grades seven through nine, with children typically aged twelve through fifteen. There are 3.2 million primary school students in Japan as of 2023, down from over 5.3 million in 1991. [35]
An elementary school class in Japan. In Japan, elementary schools (小学校, Shōgakkō) are compulsory to all children begin first grade in the April after they turn six—kindergarten is growing increasingly popular, but is not mandatory—and starting school is considered a very important event in a child's life.
Benjamin, Gail. Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children. New York: New York University Press, 1998. DeCoker, Gary, editor. National Standards and School Reform in Japan and the United States. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002. Ellington, Lucien.
Despite being one of the world’s richest nations, Japan has one of the highest rates of child poverty among the world's wealthy countries, with one in every seven children living in poverty.
Publicly run kindergartens, elementary schools (years 1 through 6), and junior high schools (7 through 9) are operated by local wards or municipal offices. Public high schools in Tokyo are run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education and are called "Metropolitan High Schools".
Children Full of Life (涙と笑いのハッピークラス 4年1組 命の授業, Namida to warai no happī kurasu: 4 nen 1 kumi Inochi no jugyō) is a 2003 Japanese documentary film directed by Noboru Kaetsu that follows a 4th grade teacher in Japan.
Japanese people school), also called Japanese school, is a full-day school outside Japan intended primarily for Japanese citizens living abroad. It is an expatriate school designed for children whose parents are working on diplomatic, business, or education missions overseas and have plans to repatriate to Japan.
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