What I liked about this news was that the graduating ninth graders are in their teens to seventies, including two foreigners.
When I was a junior high school student 35 years ago, I had four foreign-rooted classmates in a rural junior high school in northern Kumamoto Prefecture. They were two to five years older than me, but we learned together, played together, and I learned their language,加油, 再見. My world expanded. Learning is a right. The night junior high school is a wonderful place to learn.( •̀ω•́ )و✧Atsuko
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On the evening of the 6th, the first graduation ceremony was held at the first "night junior high school" in Kumamoto Prefecture, where people who were not able to receive a full compulsory education can study, and 12 students of various ages received their diplomas.

"Night junior high schools" are public night classes where people who were not able to receive a full compulsory education can study for various reasons, such as war, not attending school, and foreign nationality.

On the 6th, the first graduation ceremony was held at Yuai Junior High School, the first night junior high school in the prefecture, which opened in Kumamoto City's Chuo Ward
in April last year.

The 12 students who attended the ceremony ranged in age from their teens to their 70s, including two foreign nationals. After all the students' names were read out, each student went up to the stage and received their diploma.