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The percentage of children of compulsory school age actually enrolled in compulsory schools in Japan is 99.9 per cent, which is the highest compared with such advanced countries, as the United States of America, the United Kingdom, West Germany and France.
It must not be overlooked, however, that, even in Japan with its high percentage of compulsory school enrollment, there are children, though their number is small, who fail to attend school for long periods of time on account of illness or economic difficulties. Elementary and lower secondary school pupils who failed to attend school for a long period of time(over 50 days, intermittently or continuously) totalled approximately 120,000 in 1963. This was 0.7 per cent of the total number of children of compulsory school age. Of these long-term absentees, 53 per cent was caused by illness, 13 per cent by economic difficulties.
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