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The Story of Blue Pee: Ignorance and a New Mode of Governing in Contemporary Japan
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Konishi, Yoshiko – Critical Studies in Education, 2009
This paper explores a change in a mode of governing in Japan during the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2001-2006) through an examination of what I call the story of blue pee. The story circulated among people engaged in implementing child welfare policies at the local level, and implied that mothers today were ignorant in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government School Relationship, Politics of Education, Mothers