Japanese High School

Shoko Yoneyama is Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

'I recommend this book for reading by everyone who hopes to understand what Japan will be capable of achieving through its education system in the 21st century.' - Katalin Ferber, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture'This is a book I have been waiting for - as a teacher as well as a scholar - for a long time.' - Japanese Studies, Vol 20, No.1, 2000

• Chapter 1 Japanese students in crisis; Chapter 2 Methodology and comparative problems; Part 1 Control: the structure of silence; Chapter 3 Student–teacher relationships: the alienation paradigm; Chapter 4 Discipline and punishment: dehumanisation; Chapter 5 School rules: the web of regimentation; Chapter 6 Achievement pressure and the meaning of study; Part 2 Responses: conformity and resistance; Chapter 7 Ijime: the price of super-conformity; Chapter 8 Tokokyohi: Burnout and Resistance; Chapter 9 Conclusion;