The Japanese Education System

Japan is home to a lot of ancient cultural artifacts and yet serves as an example of the developed world samurais, high-speed trains, home to some of the world’s largest tech companies, and may evision Tokyo as a bustling fast paced city. Japan’s population is declining, this isn’t unusual in a time where developed countries are relying on less children.What is overlooked when describing the now 3rd largest economy on Earth is how it went from surrendering during WWII to becoming an industrial superpower. There have been many changes but one have remained constant, which is the collective drive to work and excel. It has heavily influenced the Japan we know today.

Two ships can arrive at the same destination; however that does not necessarily mean that they used the same route on their journey. Such is the same with the industrialization of Britain and Japan. Both rose to become the two great pioneers of the modern world; however the paths they took to success were different. This paper will compare Japan and Britain, exploring the causes of its industrialization, and how the countries drastically changed because of it. What sets Britain’s industrialization process apart from Japans is that it did not have a role model to base its development on; it was the first industrial nation. Therefore the cause of its industrialization must have much

Japanese education is very influential to the youth of Japan. It can affect students future and plays a big role in society today. Some people believe that students in Japan are better educated than the students in United States. While some people think this is not true, there are many strong reasons that prove this is accurate.

Education is the foundation of a strong and productive individual as well as being the foundation for a strong and productive country. Any country that keeps its' people uneducated or does not help to educate them cannot hold them entirely responsible for their actions that result from their lack of education. The United States and Japan both feel very strongly about education and that they need to have well educated people. Both of these countries have educational systems that are similar in some ways and yet very different in other ways. Both the similarities and the differences of these two systems give light to how each of these countries go about educating its' people and how much each of these countries

During the Edo period, for nearly 200 years, Japan has been under isolationism. They limited their contact between outsiders; Japan had existed in a state of cultural isolation for such a long time. But how has Japan become one of the world’s most powerful countries, who has one of the strongest economies in the world? In 1853, the Japanese had been prompted by Commodore Matthew Perry, to open their doors to the rest of the world. After, the Japanese signed trading treaties with many Western countries.

The Japanese empire was an inspirational country to other Asians that spearheaded the fight against the European imperialism. After the Meiji restoration, emperor’s decided that the modernization of Japan was going to begin and in order for it to be a success, the government had to change which also influenced Japanese culture as well, “…restored authority faced new dangers in a new age… rootless and masterless samurai, the traditional fighting class – had been one source of trouble” (Roberts, p. 63). Moreover, this change also increased the Japanese people’s nationalism but want to continue their journey for imperialism because of the samurai having military leadership role, this stressed the importance of loyalty to society. Education was highly influenced by other countries because of British roles that already existed in Japan “For a long time, Japanese naval cadets had been sent to Great Britain for training.

But it is worth mentioning that all of this changes were also propelled to protect Japan from the foreigners. Therefore, to some people, this book seems to self-orientalise how Japan could only achieve its modernity in its own unique way which might have appeared to be improbable to other countries facing the same challenges at that period of time. But if we account the history, we can notice that there were also external factors playing a part that forced them to impose a strict social order either nationally or internationally. One of the approach they had taken to achieve this was the Closed Country Edict of

During its earlier years, Japan modeled itself off China’s culture. They used China’s alphabet and created their own language (Perez 17-18). At this time, the Japanese wrote many poems and books, some about themselves. One of Japan’s first religions was Shinto (Perez 13). It basically told what was right and appropriate from what was wrong. However, this religion lacked “basic elements of most world religions” (Perez 13). Somewhere in the time from 500-600 CE, they also discovered a new religion: Buddhism. Time passed and people began to hire Japanese soldiers, or Samurai to protect them. As the Samurai got stronger, they became more organized, and created a military government, or the Shogunate. The Shogun basically displaced the emperor; only allowing him to have status, while the shogun ruled

Japan emerged from the Tokugawa-Meiji transition as the first Asian industrialized nation. Domestic commercial activities and limited foreign trade had met the demands for material culture in the Tokugawa period, but the modernized Meiji era had radically different requirements. From the beginning, the Meiji rulers embraced the concept of a market economy and adopted British and North American forms of free enterprise capitalism. The private sector — in a nation blessed with an abundance of aggressive entrepreneurs — welcomed such change.

The comparison between Japanese and North American educational systems is often used. The Japanese system, along with other Asian cultures, places importance on the group and the interdependence of its members (Cole & Cole, 2001, p. 541). The North American model, in contrast, focuses on the ideals of individuality and independence (Cole & Cole, 2001, p.541). This contrast is due to a conflicting cultural/social structure and outlook of the world. Japanese look at the development of self as doubled sided: the inner self and the social or public self (Hoffman, 2000, p.307). Within the Japanese education system, the teacher's goal is to develop and cultivate both layers.

Although Japan is considered to be the second richest country in the world and technology leadership, notably a unique culture. Japanese cultural progress can not be achieved this height is not affected by the outside world. Using the example in the history of Japan, and it shows, as an isolated country, Japan 's cultural evolution is slow compared to the cultural transmission in their history have played a significant role in other countries.

The culture of a place is an integral part of its society whether that place is a remote Indian village in Brazil or a highly industrialized city in Western Europe. The culture of Japan fascinates people in the United States because, at first glance, it seems so different. Everything that characterizes the United States--newness, racial heterogeneity, vast territory, informality, and an ethic of individualism-- is absent in Japan. There, one finds an ancient and homogeneous society, an ethic that emphasizes the importance of groups, and a tradition of formal behavior governing every aspect of daily living, from drinking tea to saying hello. On the surface at least, U.S. and Japanese

In Japanese schools, from elementary schools to universities, teachers direct what students should do or how they should be. Students follow the school rules and the directions of teachers. In American schools, on the other hand, students have to be more independent than Japanese students in many ways. Because of differences between Japanese and American schools, Japanese students who begin to study in an American school are shocked, and they take a pretty long time to adjust themselves to the way of American schools. Differences between schools in the two countries are seen in classrooms and during classes: the style of lectures, the relationship between student and teachers, and the

This writing ‘An analysis of Japanese capitalism’ that investigated a structure of the Japanese capitalism, which was built its prototype during the Meiji Restoration of Japan, written by Seitaro Yamada attained wide circulation among many people who were interested in social science in the prewar days in the country, besides some of them regarded it as a bible in the genre. The work that analyzed the Japanese capitalism ‘as a whole’ though the author applied the word ‘structurally’ had a great significance in the meaning of a practice and of a theory in the publishing year of 1934 about.

Japan, to this day, is a major economic power that has major influence on the rest of the world. It is a nuclear state, and has a GDP of almost 5 trillion USD. Japan wasn’t just like this and has gone through a tremendous period of growth after World War II in 1945. Since then, its economy has grown through its technological and manufacturing side. When the company was defeated in 1945, it was in an economic ruin. Everything that came before was in shambles, but little did the country know there was huge room for growth. (Ohno, 2006)