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A visitor walking down the hall in this Fresh Meadows school would find youngsters busy studying English, art, math, science and, of course, moral values.
"Moral values are very important in Japanese society," Torao Endo, said through an interpreter. Endo is principal of the Japanese School of New York, which instructs children of Japanese families stationed in the United States for extended periods.
The 11-year-old school offers a fifth- through ninth-grade curriculum, and most of the students will go back to Japan to finish their schooling. The school was set up and is partly financed by the Japanese government because it was found that children re-entering schools in Japan after attending schools elsewhere had a hard time adjusting. There is one other Japanese school in the United States in Chicago.
The Fresh Meadows school,...