Schooled for a spell of trouble

By Shelley Gare at The Australian (11.11.2006). "Jokes about softening of education standards would be funnier if they weren't so true."

Abe, LDP sued over history text approval

From The Japan Timse (15.09.2006) :

A group of people Thursday filed a lawsuit against Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and the Liberal Democratic Party with the Tokyo District Court, claiming they broke the law by intervening in the approval process for a revisionist history text.

They allege that Abe and the LDP pressured the education ministry in 2001 to endorse the textbook, which was edited by nationalist scholars at the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform.

The plaintiffs also are asking that Abe and the LDP to be ordered to publish a letter of apology in Japanese and Korean newspapers.

U.S. military-backed international school planned in Okinawa Pref.

By Kyodo at Yahoo! News Asia (19.08.2006) :

The military-sponsored English education program was proposed by Wallace Gregson, who used to serve as the U.S. military's Okinawa area coordinator. He now lives in the United States.

With the help of the two governments, as well as teachers and the business community in Okinawa, Gregson has created a nonprofit organization to establish such an international school in Okinawa.

Is Wallace Gregson this man?

Board seeks guests who sat during 'Kimigayo'

At Asahi.com (21.06.2006) :

At a Toda assembly meeting on June 13, Ryoichi Ito, the head of the education board, was informed that some guests did not stand up and sing the anthem at the ceremonies.

"It makes me seethe with anger," Ito replied. "It disrupts the order of ceremony. If it is true, then we must know (who did not stand)."

Simply, Ito-san is idiotic.

Via 絵ロ具 (20.06.2006).

Japan may add patriotism to education requirements

By Bruce Wallace with Hisako Ueno at Chicago Tribune (04.06.2006).

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Japan May Plant a Flag in Students' Backpacks

By Bruce Wallace at The LA Times (01.06.2006).