Many in Japan could continue to use some improvement in cross-cultural communication.
Teachers crying foul over unhygienic kids - MSN-Mainichi Daily News:
"Japanese schools are getting filled with more kids that stink, according to Sunday Mainichi (7/8).
Growing disparity between the country's haves and have-nots is believed to be behind the increase in unhygienic children.
But broken homes and the increasing number of foreigners in Japan are also being blamed.
...Growing numbers of foreigners are also having an influence on Japanese schools.
"There seems to be a lot of trouble surrounding couples where an older Japanese man has married a young Southeast Asian woman who's come to Japan to make some money," an education insider says.
One teacher approached a Japanese father and spoke of how his wife, who worked as a nightclub hostess and saved whatever she could while living in squalor in Japan so she could build a palatial home in her native country. The teacher, pointing out that Japan is living through an age of internationalization, encouraged the father to help his child learn Tagalog, the native tongue of his mother's homeland, the Philippines. The teacher was shocked by the father's response.
"There's no need to do that," the teacher tells Sunday Mainichi the 60-something Japanese father said. "If Japan had won that war, they'd all (Filipinos) be speaking Japanese by now.""
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