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Apr 02 Repatriated abductee Hasuike becomes full-time college instructor (Kyodo) Mar 30 1st deaf person passes medical doctor exam (Yomiuri) Mar 30 Poverty in Japan scrutinized at multinational school event (Japan Times) Mar 29 Ministry: School bullying doubles in '07 (Yomiuri) Mar 28 New education guideline calls for promoting patriotism at school (Kyodo) Mar 27 6th-grader found dead after apparent suicide leap (Yomiuri) Mar 27 Textbook screening too focused on trivia (Yomiuri) Mar 26 High school textbooks to get more difficult from 2009 (Yomiuri) Mar 26 Govt to set univ. attainment targets (Yomiuri) Mar 26 Rise in lawyer numbers will wait till 2010 (Yomiuri) Mar 22 Teen arrested for stabbing female high school student (Kyodo) Mar 22 Japanese literature student turns cheesemaker in French Alps (TODAYOnline) Mar 21 Online bullying sweeping Japan (Asian Pacific Post) Mar 18 Tokyo educators sacked over affairs with students' mothers (Mainichi) Mar 18 Absurdity at ceremonies is no laughing matter (Asahi) Mar 18 Student expelled for removing notice (Asahi) Mar 18 Antimeasles steps still spotty at colleges (Yomiuri) Mar 17 'Yawara!' author to teach at Aichi univ. (Yomiuri) Mar 16 Princess Aiko finishes kindergarten (Japan Times) Mar 13 Web site set up to teach school children Internet pitfalls (Yomiuri) Mar 13 Yokohama university dean given money for MD degrees (Yomiuri) Mar 12 For some, early acceptance to Todai (Asahi) Mar 12 Over half of primary teachers want to improve English skills (Yomiuri) Mar 11 Fancy day care the latest in corporate perks (Asahi) Mar 11 Work to make schools quake-resistant lagging (Yomiuri) Mar 10 High school principal arrested for threatening woman (Kyodo) Mar 09 School offers costume-play way to 'cool' English (Japan Times) Mar 09 Applicants to doctoral programs remain low for 4th year in Japan (Kyodo) Mar 08 Grads take final flings (Asahi) Mar 08 Stark images that offer lessons for future (Asahi) Mar 06 Militant mothers of Japan win school-run bicycle victory (Times Online) Mar 04 Shizuoka Prefecture: City teaches foreigners 'garbage 101' (Asahi) Feb 29 Junior high school boy seriously injured after shot put accident (Mainichi) Feb 29 Culture shock: Dealing with the needs of foreign residents (Asahi) Feb 28 Japanese schoolkids have whale of a lunchtime (HeraldSun) Feb 28 Oversupply, falling birthrate threaten implosion in higher education system (Japan Times) Feb 27 No. of patent applications by universities up 3.7 times (Kyodo) Feb 26 No. of Japanese universities to decline: British academic (Japan Today) Feb 25 Two-year colleges fight to survive as enrollments drop (Asahi) Feb 24 English teachers prepare for new curriculum (Yomiuri) Feb 24 Wonder soup energizes kids (Yomiuri) Feb 21 Karate teacher uses below the black belt skills to master schoolgirl seduction (Mainichi) Feb 19 School lunches safer but at what cost? (Asahi) Feb 19 Teacher, 98, still giving lessons (Yomiuri) Feb 16 Japan children to spend more time on math, science (Reuters) Feb 16 Ex-Nova teachers angry over firing by new firm (Yomiuri) Feb 15 What decides when a youth becomes an adult? (Asahi) Feb 15 University dangling cash to keep top researchers (Asahi) Feb 15 Kanagawa to make Japanese history compulsory (Kyodo) Feb 13 Police targeting ex-Nova president (Asahi)