Japan: Reversal in Relaxed Education Policy
Japanese translation | General interest
7/27/2008
There is yet another sign of clear reversal in the so-called “relaxed education policy” in Japan, as the government’s council on revitalizing education will soon propose to increase the volume of information and improve the quality of content in school textbooks, according to the Daily Yomiuri article linked above. It is well known that the volume of content in Japanese textbooks has been reduced since the relaxed education policy was adopted in the 1990s, and is now considerably less than that in the corresponding American and European textbooks.