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SGimme money; sayJpnN.
kids in a Tokyo survey
Jttpall、s vaunted敏chooー system
tumーngoutmd30rizers
TOKYO I What do Japa-
nese children want most?
Forobt toys, sbhooー hoーi,
days are out too. A newぴl.
cyc【e? No. They want, air;
chng to a,rec边nt surveズ.,..
money.Andparent, the sur-
vey found,aren、t discours-
ing them to their quest for
cash.
The response toでped a 一 1st
o,cholceslnaぶupvey con-
ducted ョKOぬanel, a sprawl J
ing residentiれーcity outside
the study was comrhis.
sloned by the cーty、s cocncll
on youth problems as part of
its caョpaiぬn agailnst juvenile
del 一nq匚ency..The $crvey que-
stioned 1,ゅれ4 younぬsters in
the fifthぬrade and second
yのarひf hiぬhschooーand1,1ひ3
parents.
••Money,-- toででed the=st
amongびothでrimapv school
chjーdren and hi to h school stu-
dents, 13 percent andlぬp-er-
cent respectively, as "the
thina 一 want most.=
For fifthぬraders, the lーst
continued witプa --でet aコimar
and a **でミ301131 ComtDeter:
W7il边hiぬプschoolersでlaひed
cloths second and audio set
thjrdv
Asl^ed wゴy they wanted
money,ひ7でercent said
want money for the pleasure
of having jr- wョle 43でercent
saーd 二 need money to injy
so 3e thing.-
Thi9 council concluded thゅt
the fact that 30re than 6p
pミsnt of the children are
interested in money for Its
own s8Ike suggests;ll但t thejr
worーd iis not much different
than that of the adult World
where the yen i饥almighty.
Obsession yvlth moneyズas
fid to be more prevalent
amonぬoーdel-chllclren. "Cash"
wasiheョostなesireable gift
tひreceiんeaョoュg 29 percent
of fifth graders, on the other
hand said a -fious bid
Item" would satlsty them.
The survey also r6vealed
that the parents of these
children tended to be induー-
ぬent, Asked what they did
when theーr children asズ6d for
something they couーd not af,
ford with their regu一ar allow-
ances, 63 percentひa id they
woukt 9ubsidーze either a 一 I or
でarto ft he purchase.
The same attitude was also
shown CTズ53でひr cent of the
parのnts who said 二 cプoose
present for kids IDa幼ed on
vvhattheズsaid they vvaコt、
•This is an aぬe wlien junior
hiぬh kids loan money to their
classmates and charぬe in-
terest,-- lamented Hi「ohisa
Ogawa, assistant professor
ofでreschooー education at
Tokyoi Gakuぬei University.
TOKYO* I Japan,はvacnted
school system ーs turning out
rotQ meョorlzers who can、t
think lhcl也pendently or ex.
press themselves, a reでort to
Prime Minister Yaさhlro Na,
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rrient for success inしaでsm.
Such a deぬree is a sure fire
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Commenting on the survey
reMUーts, the YomiuュshimCTUn
newsでaper remarked, :ln
other word切,one、s school,
rather than on e、 SIit y and
でersonality, infーuences char-
acter ev ail cations injaでanese
society.-
The ad hoc report said "the
overheated competition and
disproportionate emでhasis
on test mttrズs in the years
leading uでto college en,
trance strangーeslndlvーduaーitズ
andcreatlvーty."
0c t the rのでopt It we If has
drawn sortsひュtーcーsョas well.
Moeズo Kawano, spokeswo-
man for the Women ,sprーvate
Council on Edition criti:
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univer你ーties.
stc曾ts current? have to
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school to which they
and often仿everaー tQp schools
schedule their teひts for the
ゆam el day.
Although Nwkasone en-
dorsed the proposed reforms,
oででosltlon politicians have
decried the recommendations.
Th_B Japan socl但ーi扱tでttrtズ,
the largest opposition party,
called thereでoュ"essentially
hostile" towardでost-war edu-
cation, and said it put all the
blame for problems in Ja-
l}an,seolucation on teachers.
The reでort, for example,
said the educational refoi
are aimed at creatjnぬ*-6l cuーv
ture of dーstinct character, to
foster ,Japanese wゴo will in-
herit the traditional culture
and at the saョe time contri-
t^ute to international society
from the standpoint of a clear
しaでanese identity.*-
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