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Foreign students struggling: survey

Public schools are accommodating an unprecedented number of foreign students struggling to learn Japanese, while nearly 30,000 of them have been found to require constant help in learning the language, an education ministry survey showed Friday. ... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Fri, Jul 03 2009

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