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Although the number of isolated-area schools increased with the revision of the criteria for designation of local areas in 1990, it is now decreasing gradually. However, in Hokkaido and Kagoshima Prefectures, the percentage of the isolated-area schools is over 40% at both elementary and lower secondary schools.
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