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    12/16/01
    A 'COLLEGE' BEATS THE SYSTEM
    There's something odd about Sakata Junior College in Yamagata, Japan, Bill Stonehill writes. The town's native student population is just 13 -- but Sakata J.C. has an enrollment of 352. How does that work? Stonehill's answer takes us on a trip through Japan's higher-education underworld, with side visits to the International Bad Girls in Tokyo and to other hard-working foreign "students" who keep their families afloat by taking "classes." IT'S NOT JUST SUSHI

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