Böcker av Takehiko (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Kariya

Despite its successful image, Japan has long seen its own education system as problematic. This book analyzes the trials and errors in Japanese education reforms during the last three decades, and is a call for wider exploration of the goals of education reform in our contemporary, interconnected global age.

Demonstrates from a sociological point of view and by way of empirical analysis, that educational reforms caused profound changes in the society of post-war Japan. This book focuses on the spread of inequality in Japanese society as an 'unintended outcome' to which the educational reforms ended up contributing.