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Some children can't understand why their schools are closed while adults continue what appears to be close to normal life. She says adults need to understand that children are being forced to endure the current situation.

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Hiroe Takahashi, managing director of the non-profit group, Child Line support center, saying they have been flooded with inquiries from students voicing stress and anxiety due to school closures. The center offers advice to children over the phone or through online chat services.

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Some children can't understand why their schools are closed while adults continue what appears to be close to normal life.

This is the easiest question anyone will answer today - maybe the adults should be telling them and making sure they understand and are reassured?

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students voicing stress and anxiety due to school closures. The center offers advice to children over the phone or through online chat services.

Man when I was a kid, a school closure would have had me jumping up to the ceiling with joy. And all I had for home entertainment was an atari and a joystick.

what's wrong with kids today??

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Man when I was a kid, a school closure would have had me jumping up to the ceiling with joy. And all I had for home entertainment was an atari and a joystick.

That's because you had a school-life balance. Many Japanese kids don't have much of a life outside school. Take it away and there's not much else.

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fair enough guys. fair enough.

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That's because you had a school-life balance. Many Japanese kids don't have much of a life outside school. Take it away and there's not much else.

and not just the kids either.

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It's not a matter of endurance...the situation is inevitable. Maybe it's a wake up call from Mother Nature a way to clean her Home....

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It’s sickening to think what the archaic Japanese education system does to young people.

They’re so lucky to have all this time off to enjoy themselves, but they don’t know how because they’ve been chewed up and spat out of Japan’s useless system

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I live in a park and the kids are out there in big numbers playing basketball, soccer, dating and just hanging out socially. It's like a scene of my own youth in the 70s. And we turned out great. Those kids now don't look like they're being "forced to endure" anything.

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