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3 out of 4 Japanese students fail to pinpoint Iraq on map

Only 26% of Japanese high school students were able to correctly locate where Iraq is on a map, a survey by an academic society of geographers showed Wednesday. The Association of Japanese Geographers stressed that this and other results show the need to... ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Thu, Mar 20 2008

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