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94 People Who Were Probably Corrected
Only 94 people in this crowd are left-handed. Japan's rate is among the lowest in the developed world — not because fewer Japanese are born left-handed, but because for most of the 20th century, being left-handed in school meant being corrected. Many of these 94 fought for their dominant hand.
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Japan reports one of the lowest left-handedness rates in the world — around 3-4%. In a crowd of 2,000 Japanese, fewer than 80 will identify as left-handed. Some of this is genuine population biology. But much of it reflects decades of educational correction: left-handed children were routinely retrained to write with their right hand. The rate is slowly rising as that practice fades.