EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM & PRACTICE IN JAPAN

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	Evening lower secondary schools in Japan started amid the confusion after World War (, and were first established in Osaka in 1924 to offer a place to study for children who had to work to live and could not go to school. Then the concept spread throughout Japan. The student age range is wide, varying from teens to people in their eighties, and including people who could not get educated for various reasons, such as Korean Japanese, and recently, repatriates from China, refugees, and increasing numbers of foreigners. Evening lower secondary schools represent an important place for them to study Japanese.