Word: toyokichi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone agrees. Toyokichi Endo, a Tokyo elementary schoolteacher who is a leading critic of the juku, calls them "unhealthy and unnatural" institutions that turn children into "monsters capable of coping with entrance tests but little else." Others worry about the gakureki system that has spawned the juku. The merciless competition for places in top schools has been deplored by, among others, Sony Corp. President Akio Morita, author of a 1966 book on "the importance of disregarding gakureki...
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