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An e-sports school in Japan stumbles on a way to get dropouts back in class
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Students competing in a video game tournament at Japan's first e-sports high school in Tokyo, on Dec. 17, 2022.
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Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno
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TOKYO – Wataru Yoshida had had enough. He wasn’t going back to school.
He disliked his teachers, chafed against the rules and was bored by his classes. So in the middle of 2020, as Japan’s schools reopened after Covid-19 pandemic closings, Wataru decided to stay home and play video games all day.
