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.

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.