Japanese are experiencing financial difficulties in paying for medical and nursing-care services and cannot dispel their anxiety about their future.
The number of full-time schoolteachers has been declining in contrast to a sharp increase in the number of temporary or non-regular teachers. As of 2009, one out of nine teachers in public elementary and junior high schools teaches part time.
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