Japan Makes High School Education Free – Again

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A Tokyo public high school corridor. © 2023 Bede Sheppard / Human Rights Watch Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been abolished in 2010, but then reinstated in 2013.The new measure, approved in the budget, will expand equal opportunity in education, and should increase education access and certainty for children of parents with unstable incomes or from immigrant and other marginalized backgrounds who sometimes struggle with the bureaucracy of tuition subsidies.The initiative was pushed…

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