EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM & PRACTICE IN JAPAN

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	(1) A free school located in Tokyo rents this school building from a Tokyo city office paying money. (2) Regular meeting on Friday afternoon: all students attend, join in and decide their activities or other topics (topics; art festival, cleaning up before summer vacation, a free school schedule while summer vacation, lodging at free school (3) Timetable (4) At the back of the room; making home page for this free school, on the floor; translating documents into English which will be announced at events in German, on the desk; self-study (5) Exercising playing the guitar (6) Playing video game This free school established in 1985 was authorized as an NPO by the Tokyo city office in 1999. In 1992, the ministry of education indicated that it would leave the matter up to the principal’s discretion to determine the number of days required to go to the free school in contrast to the number of days required for ordinary schools, and in 1993 agreed that commuter’s tickets could be used by students. These developments indicate that social awareness of the problem of non-attendance at schools (absenteeism) has increased.