Chang Ts'ang-sung, whose work involves frequent trips between Taiwan and Japan, says that the Welfare Ministry has now instructed nurseries to teach two- and three-year-old infants to use chopsticks, and the subject is now part of the elementary school curriculum.
現因工作仍需常往還日本、台灣的張蒼松說，日本厚生省已指示各托兒所，教導二、三歲的幼兒使用筷子，並將「如何使用筷子」編入小學課程中。