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Japan: English education

Written byOiwan Lam
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Posted 3 October 2006 19 years ago

Debito reports that the new Japanese Cabinet opposes primary school English education. The new education minister Ibuki believes that Japanese language ability is going down and they should work on their mother tongue than foreign languages.

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