The Center for US-Japan Comparative Social Studies (www.usjp.org) is an Internet-based nonprofit organization. Since its inception in 2000, the Center has provi

The Center for US-Japan Comparative Social Studies (www.usjp.org) is an Internet-based nonprofit organization. Since its inception in 2000, the Center has provi

Japan's education system is one of the top performers compared to other OECD countries. International assessments have not only demonstrated students' and adult

Globalization is the most common overriding characteristic of our time, with societies all over the world struggling to change their educational systems to meet

Sparked by the confluence of accelerating domestic transformation and increasingly explicit impacts from ‘globalization’, the Japanese education system has