With ground-breaking ceremonies, held according to the Shinto ritual, work was started on Wednesday afternoon for the construction of a new Japanese primary school.
Mr. Masusaburo Amano, president of the Japanese Residents' Corporation, headed a list of 30 prominent members of the local Japanese community. The Consulate-General was also represented.
Located next to the Japanese Girls' High School, off the new?7atsui Boulevard, the new school, costing Y800,000 is expected to be completed in May. It will have a capacity of 1,200 pupils.
This is the fifth primary school for Japanese to be built in Shanghai. The recent increase in Japanese residents made this new addition necessary.
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