'Japanese Linguistics': Insightful description meets valuable instruction
"Japanese Linguistics" is a broad-spectrum primer on Japanese, covering everything from grammar to the social context of the language, for the undergraduate student or avid polyglot alike.
Political protest or textbook harassment?
In 1979, The New Yorker ran a very long article by Frances FitzGerald about American history textbooks and how they had changed over the years. She said that the framing of history depends on who is writing it and, more importantly, who is supporting ...
New Chinese textbook lays claim to Senkakus, dates start of war with Japan to 1931
China started a new school year on Friday with a new textbook for elementary and junior high school students that describes the Senkaku Islands, under Okinawa jurisdiction, and the South China Sea as an integral part of its territory. The new textbook reflects the hard-line ...
Story of Fukushima evacuee rice balls saving snow-stranded driver to appear in ethics textbook
A heartwarming story about Fukushima evacuees giving out rice balls to drivers stranded by heavy snow three years ago and helping one who fell ill will appear in an ethics textbook for elementary school pupils, according to a Tokyo publisher. The evacuees from the village ...
Taishukan Publishing admits to breaking industry rules by providing free classroom materials to schools that agreed to use its English textbooks this year.
Digital textbooks are accompanied by caveats
It's only a matter of time before the days of students lugging around backpacks full of heavy books are over.
Fifty Japanese scholars attack McGraw-Hill, U.S. academics on 'comfort women' issue
The “comfort women” dispute heats up as 50 Japanese scholars chide the author of a U.S. textbook and his backers for “errors” they claim no Japanese scholar would support.
Tokyo rejects South Korean, Chinese protests over textbook changes
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday dismissed criticism by China and South Korea of the latest revisions to school textbooks, saying the changes reflect a fair assessment of expert views on topics that relate to ongoing territorial disputes. The education ministry said Monday that ...
Textbook publisher to delete, dilute 'comfort women' passages
A Tokyo-based textbook publisher has obtained government approval to delete depictions of "comfort women" and references to foreign workers forcibly brought to Japan, from its high school social studies books, sources said Friday. The education ministry approved publisher Suken Shuppan's November request to delete such ...
Legislation requiring that the Korean name for the Sea of Japan be included in new school textbooks has become law in the state of Virginia, a victory for Korean-American campaigners in the U.S. backed by the South Korean government. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed the ...
South Korea on Friday criticized a move by Japan to include the government's territorial claims to two tiny South Korean-held islands in elementary school textbooks. "Our government strongly criticizes the Japanese government's approval of elementary textbooks that stepped up the level of provocation over Dokdo," ...
Education minister Hakubun Shimomura on Friday ordered the board of education in Taketomi, Okinawa Prefecture, to adopt a junior high school social studies textbook known for its conservative views, after the town chose another book in defiance of a regional council. It is the first ...
