Panel calls for community service for students

TOKYO, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Nobel Physics Prize laureate Reona (Leo) Esaki (R), head of the National Commission on Educational Reform, hands Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori his panel's interim report Sept. 22. The report said the nation's school curricula should require all elementary, junior high and senior high school students to take part in community service to nurture their sense of self-reliance and civic spirit.

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