Troubled foreign youth get leg up to rejoin Japanese society

A juvenile correction facility near Tokyo has been helping young offenders with foreign roots turn their lives around for more than three decades.In a country where language and cultural barriers can often be at the root of such childhood delinquency, the Kurihama Juvenile Training School plays a big role in helping young people to rejoin and become active members of Japanese society.As of December, around 10 out of some 60 youths staying at the facility for boys in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, were enrolled in a program designed to improve their Japanese language skills and learn more ab…READ FULL ARTICLE