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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 January 2025. This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2022) World map of countries shaded according to the literacy rate for all people aged 15 and over This is a list of countries by literacy rate. The global ...
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, Vol. 1. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-884-96433-6; Passin, Herbert. Society & Education in Japan (Kodansha USA, 1965) Platt, Brian. "Japanese Childhood, Modern Childhood: The Nation-State, the School, and 19th-Century Globalization", Journal of Social History (2005) 38#4, pp 965–985 online
The contemporary Japanese education system is a product of historical reforms dating back to the Meiji period, which established modern educational institutions and systems. [9] This early start of modernisation enabled Japan to provide education at all levels in the native language ( Japanese ), [ 10 ] rather than using the languages of ...
Youth literacy rate is the percentage of literates in the age group 15–24. UNESCO updates this data every year. The table below contains the data published for the year 2015 by UNESCO . [1] * indicates "Literacy in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Education in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
The history of Tokyo, ... By the 1830s, when the city had over 800 book sellers, literacy rates in Edo were one of the highest in the world. [66] Live entertainment
Despite nearly 70% of Japan being covered by forests, [22] parks in many major cities—especially Tokyo and Osaka—are smaller and scarcer than in major West European or North American cities. As of 2014, parkland per inhabitant in Tokyo is 5.78 square meters, [23] which is roughly half of the 11.5 square meters of Madrid. [24]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. Composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices "HDI" redirects here. For other uses, see HDI (disambiguation). For the complete ranking of countries, see List of countries by Human Development Index. World map of countries and territories by HDI scores in ...
The terakoya attendance rate reached 70% in the capital Edo at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The terakoya were abolished in the Meiji period , when the government instituted the Education System Order ( 学制 , Gakusei ) in 1872, when attending public schools was made compulsory to give basic education to ...