TOKYO — Japan is adapting to the educational and child-rearing needs of Taiwanese, Indians, Bangladeshis and other foreigners living in Japan, whose economy and society are demanding a more cosmopolitan population.
This is taking place in the city of Kumamoto, near where Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is building a factory. At the Prim School Division of Kyushu Lutheran International School, children raise their tablet computers toward a board on which a Canadian teacher had written, “If you could invent one thing to help the environment, what would it be and why?” The same question but written in traditional Chinese appears on the tablets. With the assistance of the translation function, the children begin to jot down their answers in English.
