Foreign tourists get taught the Japanese high school experience


  • World
  • Wednesday, 30 Apr 2025

A tourist from China, wearing a school uniform, practising calligraphy while taking part in a Japanese high school experience in Kimitsu, Chiba prefecture. - Reuters

KIMITSU, Japan (Reuters) -With his black uniform jacket slung rakishly over his shoulders and his feet propped up on a Japanese school desk as he held court with his crew, Jason Wu was taking great satisfaction in being a juvenile delinquent.

The 29-year-old New Yorker was participating in a one-day mock school experience at "Kimino High School" for foreign tourists in Japan. It's designed to appeal to anime fans like Wu and his wife as well as those simply curious about cultural differences in education.

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