In late May at Torikai Elementary School in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, Haruki Hirao, a 7-year-old second grader, was attending a math lesson in a classroom.
“I like studying. I enjoy mathematics the most,” he said with a gentle smile.
In his notebook, pages of double-digit additions he'd written were filled with red circles indicating that the answers were correct.
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