In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. In this episode, a student sits for an assessment of Japanese school entrance exams, marking the importance of exams, the pressures of exam-taking on students, and the resulting industry of exam-prep Juku, or cram schools, in Japan.
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