TAKAOKA, Toyama -- "Nothing will happen if we don't act now." So says Yuka Aoki, 46, director of a nonprofit that offers afterschool learning aid classes for children with foreign roots in a rural corner of Japan. Aoki believes that to save the children left behind by Japanese education, society must change to embraces cultural diversity. Aoki is aware that there is still a long road ahead, but she is pressing forward steadily toward the society she envisions.
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