{"id":123938,"date":"2019-08-19T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=123938&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-08-19T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:57:07","slug":"increase-of-junior-high-school-students-in-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/increase-of-junior-high-school-students-in-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase of Junior High School Students in Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data from a government study showed the number of junior high school students in Fukuoka Prefecture reached 134,958 as of May 2019, an increase of 508 compared to the previous year. While the number of children at elementary schools and kindergartens in Fukuoka Prefecture has increased in recent years, this is the first increase of junior high school students in over eight years. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nhk.or.jp\/lnews\/kitakyushu\/20190809\/5020003742.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NHK News Web<\/a>, 8\/9\/2019 <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/jhs-for-reference-wiki.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/jhs-for-reference-wiki.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/jhs-for-reference-wiki.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/jhs-for-reference-wiki.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/jhs-for-reference-wiki.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> Photo for image purpose only. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1%E3%82%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3_(13980957720).jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tenz1225<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from a government study showed the number of junior high school students in Fukuoka Prefecture reached 134,958 as of May 2019, an increase of 508 compared to the previous year. While the number of children at elementary schools and kindergartens in Fukuoka Prefecture has increased in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":123939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-123938","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-society","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/123938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}