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Kyushoku (School lunches) are provided in public elementary schools. Students eat kyushoku in the homeroom with classmates and the homeroom teacher. Eating in the classroom is only permitted at kyushoku. Part of the cost is borne by the students’ parents. Though prices depend on the community, the fee is about 4,000 yen per month. In the 2004 school year, 99.4% of public elementary schools served lunches.

  
   
   
   
"Be careful, it’s hot.” ”It It looks yummy"
Certified cooks make our lunches in the school kitchen. Students on lunch duty are in charge of serving. They put on white smocks and white bonnets.
Every week, han (working group) made up of five or six students take turns on lunch duty. The lunch duty students bring the lunch trucks to the classroom and serve the rest of us as we line up with our trays.
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