It's back to school in Japan, and back to the perennial questions:
• How to find enough teachers able properly to handle English-language classes in primary schools? (Answer: nearly impossible.)
• How to improve foreign-language education generally? (Cut back on high school teaching and concentrate intensive advanced teaching on those who really want it — at university level.)
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