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Matsushita students lived in dormitories and woke at 6 a.m. to clean the school top to bottom, said Hiroto Abe, who attended the institute and overlapped with Takaichi in the early 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

"Come see our dormitories," student Ulric Sambizafy offered at one of a wave of protests that have rocked the Indian Ocean island nation since September 25.

From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025

Since then, Louisdor said, conditions have slightly improved, though dormitories are still substantially overcrowded.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

Sat on a bed in one of the dormitories is Habiba.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2025

To hear the girls from the other dormitories tell it, Miss Lucy’s diligence put her colleagues to shame.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead