After-school program offers "place in society" for foreign children in Japan

On three afternoons a week, a community meeting room in a housing complex in Nagoya is filled with pupils of various nationalities for an after-school tutoring program."Hi, I brought my homework!" a kid called out to Yuko Kawaguchi, 41, on April 21. Kawaguchi is the head of Manabiya@KYUBAN, a nonprofit organization that has run the program for the past 10 years at the "Kyuban" (No. 9) housing complex in the central Japan city's Minato Ward.The children hail from such countries as Brazil, Peru, China and the Philippines and live with their families in and around the complex."How do I write t…READ FULL ARTICLE