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Teacher supports Rohingya children in Malaysia
A Rohingya Muslim who fled Myanmar has been teaching refugee children in his new home of Malaysia for around 20 years and vows to continue.
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Women take part for first time in central Japan town's festival
Women have taken part for the first time in a traditional festival in a town in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. The evening event of the two-day Sunari Festival was held on Saturday in the Sunari district of Kanie Town. The festival started with flute music performed by six children and two adults in front of a sacred object of Shinto worship. Later in the evening, a boat decorated with about 200 lanterns cruised up a river to the sound of drums and flute. Seven women joined the men on board. The festival at two local Shinto shrines has been held for about 400 years to pray for bountiful harvests and good health. It is on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage as part of the Float Festivals of Japan. The organizers called on women to join for the first time this year as the participants are aging and fewer young people now take part. A woman who took part with her daughter says she wants to liven up the festival together with other people as she will continue to live in this area. The head of the Sunari Cultural Properties Protection Committee, Baba Tsuneyuki, says they are making use of women's power as the number of participants is decreasing. He expressed hope that the festival will keep going.
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Two Oita towns to launch program to nurture aspiring local teachers
The boards of education in the rural towns of Kusu and Kokonoe in Oita Prefecture will together launch a program in fiscal 2026 to nurture educators who have strong connections to the local community. The program will be offered at Oita Prefectural Kusu Miyama High School in the town of Kusu with the support of the prefectural board of education. Most teachers in Oita Prefecture prefer to work in urban areas, and even if they are assigned to work in the two towns located in a mountainous region, many choose to be transferred to other districts after a few years. As the two towns are facing continuous population decline, there are few young aspiring teachers there. Authorities hope the program, which will run throughout the year, will foster teachers who can act as leaders in community education. Toru Wakabayashi, head of the education ministry's office for teacher training planning, said, 'Learning about the local community and the benefits of a teaching career during high school is an effective way to support students who hope to become teachers.' 'There are cases in which universities offering an education major organize teacher training sessions at local high schools to recruit students, but I have never heard of municipalities setting up a year-long course,' he said. The program, expected to have 30 classes in a year, will be offered to students enrolled at the high school wishing to pursue teaching at the elementary, junior high or high school levels. The classes will involve lectures and classroom teaching practice sessions at local elementary and junior high schools. The students will also study basics of fields of expertise necessary for teaching in today's educational settings, such as intercultural understanding, social cohesion and special needs education. The program aims to cultivate the students' love for their hometown by giving them opportunities to look into the challenges faced by the local community and take part in projects to work together with local residents. The classes will be mainly taught by teachers at the high school and at a university specializing in teacher training. Company executives will also be invited to lecture. Each student will have a teacher or an education board staff member serving as a mentor. Expenses for purchasing education materials and taking part in trial lessons at universities, as well as transportation fees, will be partially covered by the boards of education in the two towns. The students will give a research presentation in front of teachers and the superintendents of the boards of education once a year. Because some students are already asking to take the course, the program might start on a trial basis during the current school year. A council was established, with members including the towns' mayors, residents, officials from educational institutions and representatives of local companies. It will review the contents of the program and support measures based on feedback from students and lecturers as well as the career paths the students pursue after graduation. In the future, the organizers plan to sign an agreement with universities that offer teacher training majors so that students can earn college credits by taking the course while in high school. The towns are also considering creating a scholarship program for students who take the course and go on to college to become a teacher and exempt them from repaying scholarship loans if they take a teaching position in either of the towns for a certain period. Kusu Miyama High School is the only high school in the Kusu district, which comprises the two towns. The high school also has an agriculture program. Tetsuji Ishimaru, vice president of the University of Teacher Education Fukuoka in Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, said, 'It is significant that a high school and a university can cooperate under the program.' 'It leads to not only solving the problem of teacher shortage but also helping students achieve their dreams and the community realize sustainable development. It offers a new solution to promote regional revitalization.' This section features topics and issues from the Kyushu region covered by the Nishinippon Shimbun, the largest daily newspaper in Kyushu. The original article was published July 12.
