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No aspect of Japanese society has been singled out for more lavish praise (and less criticism) than the educational system. One of the best known expressions thereof was penned by Edwin O. Reischauer in his habitual “never be anything but wildly optimistic” style.
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See Nishio Kanji, “Reshaping Education for Today’s Needs,” Japan Echo, November 3, 1984, pp. 17–23.
Stan Gold, “Inside a Japanese University,” Japan Update Winter 1988, p. 3.
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Woronoff, J. (1990). Education (What is Learning?). In: Japan as-anything but-Number One. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21353-5_6
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