Troubled foreign youth get leg up to rejoin Japanese society

This is a great initiative. It's a shame it is not extended to include Japanese wayward youth.

Instead of ending up in juvenile institutions the children should have been adequately monitored and helped whilst at school.

However, the average class size in Japan stands at around 40 students per class, leaving kids to just ‘disappear’.

Even Japanese children are prone to bullying and suicide.The system in Japan needs an upgrade...

Agree with Kurisupisu.

This needs to start earlier in life so these kids & ALL kids have a better chance to survive the pressure cooker that is Japan.

Most of the 10 young men hail from East and South Asia, as well as South America, but some of them possess Japanese nationality, according to the school, which was established in 1953.

then they are japanese.

The average class size is Japan is 32.5.

https://www.theeducator.com/blog/class-sizes-around-world/

Has not been close to 40 for thirty years or so.

UK. 19.1

Australia 24.7

Latvia 14.8

China 48.8

Gary

This is good. Sometimes no matter how early you try to place people on the right track, they still can end up going down the wrong path. It's good to know programs exist to help move on from being just another statistic.

This is awesome.

Compare this to what happens in juvenile correctional facilities in other countries, where young people are thrown to the wolves like gladiators, where all they learn is how to be worse criminals.

During a recent Japanese-language class taught by an outside teacher every two weeks, the youngsters learned idiomatic phrases such as "what goes around comes around" and "enduring unbearable hardships for the sake of attaining one's objective."

Why these types of phrases?

phrases such as "what goes around comes around" and "enduring unbearable hardships for the sake of attaining one's objective." Why these types of phrases?

For Life lessons:

"what goes around comes around" : Lesson is about Karma. If you do something bad to others, then something bad will happen to you.

""enduring unbearable hardships for the sake of attaining one's objective." : Lesson is about willpower, determination and about not giving up until you achieve your goals.

I'd say this outside teacher is actually pretty good to incorporate life lessons together with Japanese language lessons.

This sounds like a great program!

"If we can remove the fear (by getting to know each other), people will understand we are all the same human beings," Moriyama said. "We should make efforts to prevent maladaptation to society and support their reintegration, rather than discriminating and excluding foreigners in an era of globalization."

I wholeheartedly agree. The ball is, and has always been, in Japan's court. Maybe some of the natives could be given bits and pieces of this training.

"In very rare cases, they can advance to schools to acquire higher education if their families are wealthy enough to afford it," he said, suggesting former juvenile offenders have a hard time climbing up the social ladder."

Applies to everyone in Japanese system.

Too bad there is still segregation by wealth while the country is wealthy.

Aren't they some education grant to deserving students ?

Are you foreign if you hold Japanese Nationality?

Weird take.

Other than that, this sounds like a good place to start.

@Wesley: When was the last time you used one of these phrases? At the convenience store when they did not have your prefered onigiri?

Come on dude...these are archaic and useless things for troubled kids trying to become part of society again...you think?