The Japan Times writes on a recent report from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Japan which reveals that more than 7,300 public school buildings in Japan face a high risk of collapse in a serious earthquake. Though the number of potentially dangerous schools is down significantly from last year, earthquakes of upper-6 seismic intensity on the Japanese scale of 7 can still reduce thousands of classrooms nationwide to rubble.
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