1) School type 
==Legal Status== Yobiko are for-profit private corporations (Tsukada, 1988a, p. 301) that are officially listed as schools by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Blumenthal, 1992). At the municipal level they are supervised by boards of education (Blumenthal). Even so, they are subject to little supervision as...
A type of private school that specializes in preparing high- school graduates for university-entrance examinations, often through intensive full-time programs.
A type of private school that specializes in preparing high- school graduates for university-entrance examinations, often through intensive full-time programs.