Young children gathered at a Tokyo shrine, Sunday, to pray for their calculation skills to be improved. More than a hundred children, aged from 5 to 10, knelt down in front of abacuses, known as sorobans, as a priest said prayers. (AP video Mayuko Ono)
Japanese children pray for their calculation skills to improve using ‘soroban’
Young children gathered at a Tokyo shrine, Sunday, to pray for their calculation skills to be improved. More than a hundred children, aged from 5 to 10, knelt down in front of abacuses, known as sorobans, as a priest said prayers. (AP video Mayuko Ono)