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Japanese students are faced with immense pressure to succeed academically from their parents, teachers, peers, and society. This is largely a result of a society that has long placed a great amount of importance on education, and a system that places all of its weight upon a single examination that has significant life-long consequences.
Stevenson, Harold, (1994), Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education. Simon & Schuster. James W. and James Hiebert Stigler, (2009, reprint), The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom. Free Press.
In South Korea, students attend elementary school from kindergarten to the 6th grade. Students study a wide range of subjects, including: Korean, English, Chinese characters, math, social studies, science, computers, art, physical education, music, health, ethics, and home economics. English instruction generally begins in the 3rd grade.
Juku attendance rose from the 1970s through the mid-1980s; participation rates increased at every grade level throughout the compulsory education years. This phenomenon was a source of great concern to the Ministry of Education, which issued directives to the regular schools that it hoped would reduce the need for after-school lessons, but these directives had little practical effect.
Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional ...
A teacher and several students who were at the rear of the line turned back and started running toward the hill behind the school. Some of the students and a teacher who turned back survived, [6] but other students couldn't move, paralyzed by the sight of the large tsunami. The location towards which the group had been heading was a few meters ...
Japan dropped from the 5th most populous country in the world to 6th in 1964, 7th in 1978, 8th in 1990, to 9th in 1998, to 10th in the early 21st century, 11th in 2020, and to 12th in 2023. [12] [13] Over the period of 2010 to 2015, the population shrank by almost a million, [14] and Japan lost a half-million in 2022 alone. [15]
As of February 2011 it had 1627 Japanese and 421 foreign staff. [2] Teachers at Peppy Kids Club teach independently and are responsible for the welfare of the students from the time they arrive at the classroom to the time the students' parents pick them up. [3] The Japanese teachers act as a manager and caretaker for a specific classroom.