Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Abbreviations, Preface, Acknowledgments, 1. Introduction: The Potemkin Factor, 2. Myths, Mendacity, and Methodology, 3. State, Nation, Capital, and Examinations: The Shattering of Knowledge, 4. Gazing and Guiding: Japan's Education-Examination Regime, 5. Schooling for Silence: The Sociopsychology of Student Apathy, 6. Japanese Higher Education as Simulated Schooling, 7. Self-Orientalism Through Occidentalism: How English and Foreigners Nationalize Japanese Students, 8. Playing Dumb: Students Who Pretend Not to Know, 9. Lessons Learned in Higher Education, 10. The Price of Simulated Schooling and Reform, Appendix A: Statistics of Japanese Education, Appendix B: Other Types of Postsecondary Schools in Japan, Appendix C: Modes of Institutional Operation and Simulation, References, Index