From the Front Page Sections, translated…
Japan, like Taiwan, is facing the trials of having less children being born. The aging population, with the declining number of offspring, the society is not only faced with the troubles in education in recent years, over hundreds of villages in Japan are combined, even, gone. “Home is gone” became the most painful thing the Japanese people are experiencing.
The Educational Research Foundation for Distant Regions, as well as the elementary school principal, when interviewed by the newspapers, stated how the impacts from less children being born, with the decline in productivity of industries. A lot of the villages are disappearing, because the population is migrating, because of industrial declines, in the decades, the fifty local districts were recombined, into thirty, and, in those abandoned villages, only the elderly remained.
The school principal said, the villages disappearing doesn’t mean that the villages had lost their purpose and values, instead, they’d contained the precious histories and traditions, and the schools that are still standing shoulder the burdens of helping to pass down the torch, to help keep everything in the countryside intact.
And so, this, is how the Japanese government is working hard, to save those countryside schools, and, these schools in the distant areas are still, fighting, to survive…