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FreshEd #112 – Educational privatization in Japan (Makoto Itoh)

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The Tragic Situation of Student Bankruptcy

In many cases it affects the total society broadly. This is the students that go bankrupt because of the loans they've taken out and they're unable to pay them back. I mean, should we not be surprised that this is happening? Even if it is tragic. In my use when I was a student, tuition for state university seems almost nothing. It was so cheap. Whereas in the present day in the University of Tokyo,. you can see over 54.8 percent of students came from the family type of fees. Just under 10 percent of top teacher families, this class. So in student period, student friends are so various in their classes or the mixture of society.

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