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Japan News This Week 11 December 2016



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Japan Is Obsessed With Climate Change. Young People Don?t Get It
New York Times

Hayao Miyazaki: Japan's godfather of animation"
BBC

Japan PM to visit Pearl Harbor with Barack Obama
Guardian

Diet ratifies TPP but trade deal remains dead in the water without U.S.
Japan Times

Japan, Pearl Harbor, and the Poetry of December 8th
Japan Focus

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The results of the triennial PISA tests were just published. Every three years, 15-year-old students around the world are tested in math, science, and reading.

Of the 72 countries that participated, Japanese students finished 2nd in math, 5th in math, and 8th in reading.

Singapore finished first in all three categories.

Results can be found here:

Source: Asahi Shinbun, December 7, page 1

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