juku
Americannoun
plural
jukuEtymology
Origin of juku
1980–85; < Japanese
Example Sentences
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The exam prep schools are called juku, and they are part of the boundless, multi-billion-dollar ojyuken industry that converts every parental anxiety into a business opportunity.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2018
There was also a sheet that listed the juku rules that included this entry: “If Sakura concludes that the mother is emotionally unstable, we will ask you to withdraw.”
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2018
After several rejections, we finally found a juku that would take us in.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2018
Toyokichi Endo, a Tokyo elementary schoolteacher who is a leading critic of the juku, calls them "unhealthy and unnatural" institutions that turn children into "monsters capable of coping with entrance tests but little else."
From Time Magazine Archive
Others worry about the gakureki system that has spawned the juku.
From Time Magazine Archive
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