Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children

Benjamin dismantles Americans' preconceived notions of the Japanese education system

"Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one..."—The New York Times Book Review

Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignance. We respect a system that produces higher ...