Hometown Stories

Season 8, Episode 2

Episode Title: Yuka and Her New Classmates

Air Date: 2019-01-20

Overview:

How can Japanese schools cope with increasing numbers of children of foreign workers? And how can these children overcome the barriers they face? One school, where a fifth of the students have foreign nationalities, has taken proactive steps to help integrate these students. We follow Yuka, a new arrival from Brazil, who knows no Japanese and struggles to break out of her shell so she can join the life of the school.