Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Japanese school that prepares students for entrance exams, as for admission to a university, and is attended in addition to public school.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These are called juku, to which the misleading term “cram school” seems to have permanently stuck.
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These post towns, known as juku, provided feudal-era travelers places to stop for food and lodging.
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Half of Japan's ninth graders moved every afternoon from school to private "juku" for additional instruction in core subjects.
The Case for Saturday School Chester E. Finn Jr. 2010
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Half of Japan's ninth graders moved every afternoon from school to private "juku" for additional instruction in core subjects.
The Case for Saturday School Chester E. Finn Jr. 2010
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Half of Japan's ninth graders moved every afternoon from school to private "juku" for additional instruction in core subjects.
The Case for Saturday School Chester E. Finn Jr. 2010
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He informed me that his teenage Japanese customers had in the past preferred the Osama t-shirts to flaunt in their Sunday promenades in the bizarre fashion/culture district of Hara-juku.
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Because ambitious students attend extra classes (juku) on top of ordinary schooling, their ordinary classes are often boring by comparison and provide good opportunities to catch up on lost sleep.
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I once visited a juku school in Kobe, a cram school where kids go to get the leg up on the competition, and asked a classroom full of eight-year-old girls, “What do you want to do when you grow up?”
Kickboxing Geishas Veronica Chambers 2007
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This respect is given whether one is a professor emeritus at an elite university or a recent graduate of a fourth-rate college with an art history major teaching English at a juku for a couple of years before having to face up to finding a real job.
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Besides, this was just an English juku and the boy was still in primary school, so it was not as if I was going to help him get into the University of Tokyo.
madmouth commented on the word juku
a.k.a. cram school. The Korean counterpart is hagwon (with permutations such as hagwon from hell)
July 31, 2009