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...
I was in a position which opposed school uniform in the class and I actually object to it. There are some reasons for that. School uniform is not functional. Students rarely wash it while they wear it every day. When they get it dirty, they have to wait until...
I believe we should abolish the Japan-US Security Treaty. There are a lot of problems caused by the treaty. It is a problem in Okinawa that I think to be most serious among them. Okinawa is the only place which experienced being a battlefield in Japan during...
Do Japanese schools have too many rules? What school rules bothered you the most when you were in junior high school and high school? Should school rules in Japan be kept the way they are? I want to say that there are not just too many rules, but also ones t...
Terri Schiavo, a Floridian woman, died on Mar. 31, 2005 after 15 years of living in a vegetative state. She collapsed at the age of 26, suffering from brain damage, which left her totally dependent on others for basic care. This included food and water, which ...