Word: gakuin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sweetwater, Tenn., is so small (pop. 5,300), Southern and sedate that local teenagers consider it sport to ogle the traffic on Friday nights. Last week, however, residents had something unusual to engage their attention: Tennessee Meiji Gakuin, the first fully accredited Japanese high school...
Last summer Toyko's Meiji Gakuin University found a solution. For $2.4 million it bought Tennessee Military Institute, a defunct boarding school in / Sweetwater, and spent $2 million restoring the property. The site was no accident: a large number of the 7,696 Japanese-affiliated firms in the U.S. are east of the Mississippi River, and almost 60 are in Tennessee...
...future appears bright for schools like T.M.G. In 1990 Keio University of Tokyo plans to open Keio Gijuki New York Gakuin, a school for grades 9 through 12, on the campus of Manhattanville College, north of New York City. The setting will be more cosmopolitan than bucolic Sweetwater. But for students accustomed to the bustle of Tokyo, that should pose no problem...
...Last December, Tanaka looked on with district as a $5.1 million tunnel that serves only 60 homes in his district was completed. As Jushiro Komiyama, a former Cabinet minister puts it, "He takes care of those who support him, no matter what." Political Science Professor Kinuko Kubota of Tohoku Gakuin University concurs. "When it comes to the art of tackling party politics," she notes, "nobody does it better...