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Japan high school karuta player aims for the top as tournaments return after hiatus
July 11, 2021 (Mainichi Japan) ISHIKAWA Every summer, Shiga Prefecture s Oumi Jingu shrine holds the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu competitive karuta card game s national high school championships. The event is also called the Karuta Koshien a reference to the high school baseball tournaments that draw huge national attention each year. While the coronavirus pandemic led to the event s cancellation last year, this March, a voluntarily organized replacement tournament, the Etoile Cup, went ahead. There, 17-year-old Mahiro Hayashi came out champion and made her first appearance at the top of karuta s competitive scene for high schoolers.
While Western-style toilets common in Japan, many kids still face squat toilets at school
February 28, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
A Western-style toilet with a warm-water washing seat that replaced a Japanese-style toilet at an elementary school in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, is seen on Feb. 9, 2021. (Mainichi/Chinatsu Ide) KANAZAWA Despite Western-style toilets becoming a common sight in Japanese households, nearly half of bathroom facilities at elementary and junior high schools nationwide are still traditional Japanese-style squat ones. As of September 2020, some 57% of bathroom facilities at public elementary and junior high schools across the country were Western-style toilets, according to a Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology announcement.