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Education in Japan is managed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. Education is compulsory at the elementary and lower secondary levels. Most students attend public schools through the lower secondary level, but private education is popular at the upper secondary and university levels. Education prior to elementary school is provided at kindergartens and day-care centres. The programmes for those children aged 3–5 resemble those at kindergartens. The educational approach at kindergartens varies greatly from unstructured environments that emphasize play to highly structured environments that are focused on having the child pass the entrance exam at a private elementary school. The academic year starts from April and ends in March, having summer vacation in August and winter vacation in the end of December to the beginning of January.

<i>Minbo</i> 1992 Japanese film by Jūzō Itami

Minbo is a 1992 Japanese film by filmmaker Juzo Itami. It is also known by the titles Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion, The Gangster's Moll and The Anti-Extortion Woman. The film was widely popular in Japan and a critical success internationally. It satirizes the yakuza, who retaliated for their portrayal in the film by assaulting the director.

<i>The Journal of Asian Studies</i> Academic journal

The Journal of Asian Studies, the flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies, is the most authoritative and prestigious peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of Asian studies. With an acceptance rate of approximately 6%, it upholds rigorous standards in the evaluation and publication of scholarly research. Each issue of the Journal of Asian Studies circulates over 8,200 copies, reaching a readership across the academic community and beyond.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Xu Fu</span> Chinese alchemist and explorer

Xu Fu (Hsu Fu; Chinese: 徐福 or 徐巿; pinyin: Xú Fú; Wade–Giles: Hsu2 Fu2; Japanese: 徐福 Jofuku or 徐巿 Jofutsu; Korean: 서복 Seo Bok or 서불 Seo Bul) was a Chinese alchemist and explorer. He was born in 255 BC in the state of Qi and disappeared at sea in 210 BC. He served as a court sorcerer in Qin Dynasty China. Later, he was sent by Qin Shi Huang to the eastern seas twice to look for the elixir of life. His two journeys occurred between 219 BC and 210 BC. It was believed that the fleet included 60 barques with soldiers, ship crewmen, 3,000 boys and 3,000 girls, and craftsmen of different fields. After he embarked on a second mission in 210 BC, he never returned.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tadao Yanaihara</span>

Tadao Yanaihara was a Japanese economist, educator and Christian pacifist. The first director of Shakai Kagaku Kenkyūjo at the University of Tokyo, he studied at Toynbee Hall and School of Economics and Political Science.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of Hawaiʻi Press</span> Academic publisher

The University of Hawaiʻi Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiʻi.

Shozo Fujita (1927–2003) was a Japanese political scientist and intellectual historian, a "leading intellectual of 'postwar Japan'" and a follower of Masao Maruyama.

<i>Social Science & Medicine</i> Academic journal

Social Science & Medicine is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering social science research on health, including anthropology, economics, geography, psychology, social epidemiology, social policy, sociology, medicine and health care practice, policy, and organization. It was established in 1967 and is published by Elsevier.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fiona Graham</span> Australian anthropologist, geisha

Fiona Caroline Graham is an Australian anthropologist working as a geisha in Japan. She made her debut as a geisha in 2007 in the Asakusa district of Tokyo under the name Sayuki (紗幸) as a part of her anthropological study, and as of 2021 was working in the Fukagawa district of Tokyo.

<i>Social Studies of Science</i> Academic journal

Social Studies of Science is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers relating to the history and philosophy of science. The journal's editors-in-chief are Nicole Nelson Sergio Sismondo. The journal was established in 1971 under the name Science Studies and assumed its present title in 1975. It is currently published by SAGE Publications.

<i>Dealing with Disaster in Japan</i>

Dealing with Disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash is a 2011 book written by Christopher P. Hood, a lecturer of Japanese studies at Cardiff University, and published by Routledge. It is about Japan Airlines Flight 123, and together with its sequel Osutaka: A Chronicle of Loss In the World's Largest Single Plane Crash, are the only English-language books entirely about that accident. The book discusses the accident and its societal aftermath and compares and contrasts the response to JL123 to that of other accidents. The audience for the book involves those in studies of Japan and those studying aircraft accidents, and it is aimed at both academics and non-academics.

Brian Andre Victoria is an American educator, Doctor of Philosophy, writer and Buddhist priest in the Sōtō Zen sect. He has published numerous works on the relationship of religion to violence, with a focus on the relationship between Buddhism and Japanese militarism around World War II.

Timothy S. George is a Professor of History and Chair of the University of Rhode Island Department of History. He specializes in Postwar Japanese history, Citizen-corporation-state relations in Japan from Meiji through Shōwa, local history, and environmental history. A Fulbright Scholar, George's research has been reviewed in Environmental History, The Journal of Asian Studies, Social Science Japan Journal, and the Journal of Japanese Studies. He is a faculty affiliate of Harvard University's Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.

Steven Robert Reed is a political scientist and Professor of Modern Government in the Faculty of Policy Studies at Chuo University in Tokyo. He has held positions at the University of Alabama and Harvard University, and he has served as a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, University of Washington, and Chiba University.

Social mobility in Japan refers to the upward and downward movement for Japanese from one social class to another. The vertical mobility can be the change in social status between parents and children, which is intergenerational movement; as well as the change over the course of a lifetime, which is intragenerational movement. After World War II, Japan’s economy grew rapidly and stably. Japan achieved the high employment rate among developed countries as well as established a relatively equal class structure due to the rapid economy growth as well as its life-time employment system, progressive tax policies, and social security policies. Not only did the huge middle class establish the image of Japan’s “affluent society”, but also maintained the long-term stability of the running Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, and verified the proposition that industrialization narrows down the social stratification. In the early 1970s, Japan even created the myth of “100 million all in the middle class”, showing that social satisfaction reached a high level and the middle class awareness maintained long-term stability.

Even as a highly developed and modern society, Japan still has moderate levels of gender inequality. In 2015, the country had a per-capita income of US$38,883, ranking 22nd of the 188 countries, and No. 18 in the Human Development Index. Its Gender Inequality Index rank was 17th on the 2019 report, ahead of Germany, the UK and the US. Despite this relatively high ranking, gender inequality still exists in Japan due to the persistence of gender norms in Japanese society. Gender-based inequality manifests in various aspects of social life in Japan, from the family to political representation, playing particular roles in employment opportunities, education, and income, and occurs largely as a result of differing gender roles in traditional and modern Japanese society. Inequality also lies within divorce and the marriage of same sex couples due to both a lack of protective divorce laws and the presence of restrictive marriage laws; discrimination exists outside of the law and is present in the modern day society of Japan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kiyoshi Oshikawa</span> Japanese baseball player

Kiyoshi Oshikawa was a Japanese baseball player, executive and the founder of the first Japanese professional baseball team.

Exclusionism is the political ideology and practice of excluding people from the community, especially in the context of ethnic nationalism, racism, or xenophobia.

Thomas Robert Hamilton Havens is an American Japanologist.

Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World is a non-fiction book by Theodore C. Bestor, published in 2004 by University of California Press. It discusses the Tsukiji fish market.