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		jfaat 57 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If my kids excel, will they move away? You claimed, without a source other than wikipedia, that everyone in Japan learns English in school. I see this [0] on wikipedia which says "a select number of public primary schools ... have mandatory English classes" [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_education_in_...

umanwizard 56 days ago [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Japan#School_subj...

> The following is the set of compulsory subjects currently taught in the Japanese education system from the primary to secondary levels:

> * Foreign languages: English (rarely: Korean, Spanish, Arabic, French, German, or Chinese)

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