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wide variety of views expressed by foreigners
Yin Wenyi believes that young people in Japan
should take advantage of their freedom to go abroad.
living in Japan. They are valuable in giving the Japanese
“Once you have a Japanese passport," she says, “you can
an outside view of their own culture.
go almost anywhere in the world." She points out that
s that is something the Chinese envy. “Young people in
Japan should take learninga foreign language more
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In coming to Japan, such people must have had a
great spirit of adventure. What about the other side of
the picture? Do many Japanese people share that spirit?
seriously and then go off and see the world with their
As far as students are concerned, fewer and fewer are
own eyes,” she adds. “That would greatly help Japan's
choosing to go abroad to study. According to the Ministry
of Education, after a peak in 2004, numbers began to 10
future."”
decrease. Indeed, between 2004 and 2010, there was a
30% reduction in the number of students studying abroad.
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