61539 This kind of significance of school events must not be forgotten.
61540 The next request goes to the Boards of Education.
61541 They must be flexible enough to accept the class hours in the curriculum submitted by each school.
61542 The number of class hours is defined in the appendix of the Enforcement Regulations of the School Education Law.
61543 For example, the number of hours of instruction is specified per grade for each subject, moral education, and special activities, with 306 being the hours for Japanese and 850 the total number of hours of instructions for the first grade.
61544 While these hours of instruction are regarded as a "standard," it is actually being treated as the "minimum."
61545 The Boards of Education do not accept any curriculum that does not observe this rule.
61546 Under these circumstances, the schools have no other choice but to automatically cut back school events and make up hours lost from the Saturday school closures by tacking them onto the regular hours of other days.
61547 The Boards should treat the "standard" as a "rule of thumb" and recognize the implementation of a "five-day school system" that is unique to each school.
61548 Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education should amend this restrictive five-day school system and tackle the drastic revision of the educational guidelines towards a complete five-day school system.
61549 When having fallen ill, everybody wants to receive quality medical attention.
61550 Amidst the advancement of medical technology and the aging society, doctors with a well-rounded personality and a wide-range of skills have increasingly been in demand.
61551 To become a medical practitioner, it is a nonbinding target to go through two or more years of clinical training after having completed medical education and passed the national examination for the physicians' license.
61552 In fact, over 80 percent of medical licensees, with the exception of those who went on to attend graduate schools, are taking internship at university hospitals or hospitals designated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
61553 However, as internship is mandatory, the substance of training at the various hospitals is not consistent from one hospital to another.