Has Japan succeeded in realizing sexual equality? Surely, legislation has been passed to bring about sexual equality, but it seems that the true equality has not carried out yet. In other words, most of the ways of thinking in Japan still remains traditional; ...
“Shame Culture” is the famous word as which Mrs. Ruth Benedict, an American author, described Japanese culture in her book “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword-Patterns of Japanese Culture,” contrasting Western “Sin Culture.” From my point of view, however, ...
Last year, the Ministry of Education finally began to take steps to reform the course of study in junior high school. The biggest revision is probably this: the cultivation of English communication. It has been said that Japanese know the grammar, but they can...