TOKYO: Sharpening a pencil may seem to be such an easy thing but not to many Japanese schoolchildren, according to officials of the Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) here.
They said that there was a worrying trend that schoolchildren in Japan were lacking creativity and even having difficulty learning basic skills like sharpening a pencil.
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