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State urged to pare, eventually end yen loans to aid-donor China
An Upper House report says Japan should reduce its yen loans to China with an eye to abolishing them because such official developmental assistance is no longer needed.
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Five-day-week schools get shorter summer break
To make up for classroom hours lost since the introduction of a five-day school week, students at the 24 junior high schools in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward will lose one week from
their summer vacation beginning next year.
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