Osaka Governor Toru Hashimoto announced recently that students at public primary, middle and high schools in the prefecture will be banned from using cell phones at school by March 2009.

日本大阪府知事桥下彻日前宣布，到2009年3月，禁止当地公立中小学学生携带手机入校或在校园内使用手机。

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Educationalists have spoken of the need to make schools safer, with metal detectors, security guards and conveniently placed cell phones (one Columbine student, cowering under a desk, failed to get through to the police but managed to use his cell phone to talk to a television station).

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