online video, elementary school in Japan

Time for School Series (12 year project, started in 2002 & ending with graduation; 7 countries)
>>Benin, Brazil, education, India, Japan, Kenya, Romania

2003 [first day at Saho Elementary, age 6, first 10 minutes of program]
Time for School, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/time-for-school-series/full-episode-time-for-school/667/
 
2006 [Benin & Japan, Nara, age 9 - starting at minute 7 of segment]
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/time-for-school-series/full-episode-back-to-school/272/ 
 
2009 Time for School 3 is not yet posted online

 
[from the intro page, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/time-for-school-series/introduction/4340/]
 
These children's stories put a human face on the shocking fact that more than 75 million children are currently out of school; of these, two thirds are girls. One in four children in developing countries does not complete five years of basic education, and there are nearly one billion illiterate adults — one-sixth of the world's people. WIDE ANGLE plans to continue revisiting all the children, and their peers and families, through 2015, the year they should graduate — and, not coincidentally, the U.N.'s target date for achieving universal education, a Millennium Development goal endorsed by all 191 members of the United Nations.
 
While each child in Time for School 3 has a unique story, taken together their lives tell an epic tale, shedding light on one of the most urgent and under-reported stories of our time.