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  2. Juku - Wikipedia

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    Juku attendance rose from the 1970s through the mid-1980s; participation rates increased at every grade level throughout the compulsory education years. This phenomenon was a source of great concern to the Ministry of Education, which issued directives to the regular schools that it hoped would reduce the need for after-school lessons, but these directives had little practical effect.

  3. List of jukus in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Daikin Junbigou Weds (post junior high school) Kawai Juku Cosmo Chubu-chiku Cosmo Course (15 years old - ) Goal Free Kobetsu Kyouiku Yobiko G.I.P. (junior high - ) Kyoto Kokusai Yobiko (KIPS) Osaka YMCA Free School (Post junior high) Kansai Koutou Gakuen (15 years old - ) Rivasu Academy Shiyu-juku, Osaka School (12 years old- )

  4. Education in Japan - Wikipedia

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    With Juku costing between 600,000 and 1.5 million yen, depending on how old the student is and how much the guardian can pay, cram school is a very profitable part of the economy, with over 48,000 Juku schools active today. [74]

  5. Academic grading in Japan - Wikipedia

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    If they do not pass, they are not allowed to go to high school. Parents often send their children to cram schools (塾, juku) or private schools for test training purposes. [3] Most high schools in Japan have a numerical grading system from 5 to 1, with 5 being the highest grade and 1 being the lowest. [4]

  6. Yobikō - Wikipedia

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    Japan’s low juvenile crime rate may be caused in part because children who attend yobikō or juku, in addition to regular school, have less free time. [ 26 ] Yobiko could improve students' chances of being accepting to a higher-quality college.

  7. Japan's best high school marching band readies for Rose ...

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    The group is considered Japan's best and most innovative high school marching band. Until just several years ago — when the school began to admit boys — the band was made up entirely of girls.

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    A U.S. judge will consider on Monday the fate of President Donald Trump's buyout offer to two million federal workers as Trump presses ahead with an unprecedented effort to dismantle government ...

  9. The (Real) Problem With Fake Plants - AOL

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    Credit - Photo-Illustration by TIME; Capelle.r/Getty Images; Artfully79/Getty Images. W hen the German philosopher Immanuel Kant puzzled over why nature looks beautiful to us, he considered the ...