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Learning to read in a foreign language has taught me to embrace ambiguity – one sentence at a time | Patrick Lum
In striving to understand Japanese books and comics, I’ve adopted the habits of a weightlifter: I find my comf…
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Japanese city to use robots to tackle rise in truancy
Schools in Kumamoto have purchased two mechanical assistants to help children regain confidence in dealing wit…
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Japanese university told to compensate 13 women after exam discrimination
Juntendo University medical school made it harder for females to pass entrance examsA medical school in Tokyo …
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Ministers are old enough, but not wise enough to go it alone | Brief letters
A remake worth watching | Strongman myth | Boris Johnson’s ‘secret’ trip | Drama in schools | Ukrainian visa b…
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Women outperform men in Japanese medical school entrance exams, years after testing scandal
More women qualified for places than men for first time since universities admitted to deliberately failing fe…
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Lessons still to be learned about masks in schools | Letters
Asia can teach the UK much about keeping schools open during a pandemic, says Edward Vickers, while Jo Campion…
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Interest in anime and K-pop drive boom in Korean and Japanese degrees
More students now study Korean than Russian, and Japanese than Italian, report showsInterest in anime, gaming …
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Can you say Squid Game in Korean? TV show fuels demand for east Asian language learning
Japanese and Korean are in top five choices in UK this year at online platform DuolingoWhether it’s down to Sq…
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Japan is also swimming against the tide on same-sex marriage | Brief letters
LGBTQ+ rights in Japan | Literary incorrectness | PMQs | A marital palindrome | Cross wordsMany congratulation…