He dropped out of high school at the age of 16 because his family could not afford school fees.

因为家庭负担不起学费，他16岁的时候就从中学退学了。

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Families used to living on huge bonus income are unable to continue with the commitments they have taken on-housing and school fees and the cost of living the high life.

很多家庭以往依靠巨大的红利收入生活，现在没有能力再继续维持他们承担的义务——房租和学费以及过高品质生活的花销。

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Starting this year, families began receiving monthly allowances of 13,000 yen ($150) per child, and fees for public high school, which ran at around $115 a month, were scrapped.

从今年开始，日本家庭开始享受每个孩子每月13000日元（150美元）的津贴，并且取消了公立高中的学费（每月大约115美元）。

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It took the view that "insufficient measures had been taken to provide assistance in respect of high school fees, or to otherwise widen the access to the benefit they provided".

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"I'm a big advocate of low fees, and the new regulations have caused an extra layer of fees, " says Richard Nichols, a high-school teacher in suburban Chicago.

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From this year, said Mr Wen, schools would no longer charge tuition or other fees for children having their compulsory education (up to the end of junior high school).

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