THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 1, 2023 at 18:23 JST
In one question, students are asked to state their opinions and reasons after listening to a speaker state sales of plastic shopping bags should be stopped. (The Asahi Shimbun)
Third-year junior high school students correctly answered only 12.4 percent of questions, on average, on the government’s nationwide English-speaking test, while 60 percent of students scored a flat zero. [Read More]
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A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.
Cooking experts, chefs and others involved in the field of food introduce their special recipes intertwined with their paths in life.
A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
