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Title: Teachers win right not to sing their national anthem
Post by: Foxy Brown on September 22, 2006, 06:42:42 PM

Within hours of victory in his party presidential race Shinzo Abe, Japan’s right-wing incoming prime minister, suffered a heavy legal blow to his nationalist agenda when a Tokyo court ruled that it was unconstitutional to force patriotism on school teachers. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2368855,00.html)

Title: Teachers win right not to sing their national anthem
Post by: Shumatsu Samurai on September 22, 2006, 06:51:35 PM

About time! (http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/9607/thumbsup6ho.gif)

Title: Teachers win right not to sing their national anthem
Post by: JFC on September 23, 2006, 12:16:11 AM

*reads article*

Now THAT's something you don't hear of everyday. o_o

Title: Teachers win right not to sing their national anthem
Post by: Sakamoto871 on September 23, 2006, 01:29:45 AM

Wow...o_O