Japanese students are bad, too.
Mar. 1st, 2005 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingNorth Korea has menaced Japan with missiles, kidnapped its citizens and stands between it and a place in the soccer World Cup finals, but one in four Japanese high-school students can't place the country on a map.
As for Iraq, where Japan has some 550 soldiers in one of the country's most controversial overseas deployments and where a Japanese was beheaded by kidnappers, over 40 percent of university students and high-school pupils couldn't find it.
It wasn't only small countries that didn't register, however.
Takizawa said that some students couldn't find the United States and located it in China, Brazil or the central African state of Congo.
As for Iraq, where Japan has some 550 soldiers in one of the country's most controversial overseas deployments and where a Japanese was beheaded by kidnappers, over 40 percent of university students and high-school pupils couldn't find it.
It wasn't only small countries that didn't register, however.
Takizawa said that some students couldn't find the United States and located it in China, Brazil or the central African state of Congo.