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Direct linkSato, Manabu – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2008
Current Educational Reform in Japan is oddly captured with confused conceptions of "compulsory education." The Ministry of Education blankets such connotations of it, as a national budget system, mandated school curriculum, responsible partnership of school with community and accountabilities of local school board, in defense of vested…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Public Education
Peer reviewedHikins, James W. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1983
Analyzes the decision to drop the atomic bomb from a rhetorical point of view, arguing that the bombs were launched because of an American commitment to a particular rhetoric that focused on the propaganda slogan "unconditional surrender." (PD)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Foreign Policy, Nuclear Warfare, Nuclear Weapons
Peer reviewedBranham, Robert James – Argumentation and Advocacy, 1994
Argues that debate is not antithetical to Japanese culture and that Japan has indigenous traditions of argument and debate. Outlines the Japanese tradition of argumentation prior to the "opening to the West" in 1853. Suggests a more expansive model of debate as appropriate to cross-cultural analysis. (HB)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Debate, Discourse Analysis
Ellington, Lucien – Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2003
This essay is based on the author's presentation at the Wachman Fund's 2003 history institute, "Teaching Japan." An overview of Japan's educational system and common misconceptions about Japanese schools are presented. American resistance to comparative education ins general is also discussed. By setting aside traditional biases against…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Educational Assessment
