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news 7.5% of teachers at Japan public primary, junior high schools are temp. workers: survey The Mainichi © The Mainichi This 2009 file photo shows people taking the teacher employment exam in Oita Prefecture. (Mainichi/Eisuke Obata) TOKYO -- The number of temporary teachers in Japan at public elementary and junior high schools has reached 7.5% of the total, according to the results of a survey by the education ministry. According to a Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology survey, there are 43,900 temporary teachers in Japan at such schools this aca...

news You are using an older browser version. Please use a supported version for the best MSN experience. Docs reveal 5 or more virus cases at 8 hotels, inns under Japan's 'Go To Travel' program The Mainichi © The Mainichi This photo taken on Jan. 22, 2021, shows a portion of documents disclosed by the Japan Tourism Agency listing the accumulated total number of coronavirus cases at each hotel and inn that registered with the government's "Go To Travel" tourism subsidy program. (Mainichi/Nobuyuki Shimada) TOKYO -- At least eight hotels and inns that accommodated people usin...

news Surge of 3-yr-olds in Japan city with cavities blamed on stay-at-home lifestyles The Mainichi © The Mainichi This photo shows cavity prevention leaflets the Obu Municipal Government started to distribute. (Mainichi) OBU, Aichi -- The number of 3-year-old children with cavities in this central Japan city has nearly doubled in just over a year, prompting authorities to distribute leaflets urging parents to have such toddlers receive health checkups as a prevention measure. After examining 336 3-year-olds who underwent health checkups before September 2020, the Obu Munici...

news 'I killed Mom': Hiroshima survivor's painful memories revived for anti-war paper play The Mainichi © The Mainichi This image shows a boy escaping a fire while leaving behind his mother who was trapped under their collapsed home, in a "kamishibai" paper play based on the memories of late A-bomb survivor and activist Mikiso Iwasa. (Mainichi/Chinatsu Ide) KANAZAWA -- A group in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa has completed a "kamishibai" paper play based on the experience of a hibakusha, or A-bomb survivor, whose guilt at leaving his mother behind in a fire cause...

news 1 in 4 elementary schoolchildren in Japan suspected of experiencing constipation: study The Mainichi © The Mainichi This file photo shows a toilet. (Mainichi) KOBE -- One out of four elementary school students in Japan is suspected of suffering from constipation, according to a rare survey on bowel movements among schoolchildren by a nonprofit organization. The Tokyo-based group Japan Toilet Labo sent out survey forms to record one's bowel movements for 10 days -- how many times they went and consistency of stool, among other questions -- to some 10,000 elementary sch...