By Jon Woronoff (auth.)
Political scandals, governmental instability and the poison-gas assault in valuable Tokyo exhibit that Japan is passing via a major social predicament. It impacts nearly each social unit: kinfolk, institution, corporation, political events, religions and the state. And it concerns each section of the inhabitants, old and young, women and men, administration and labour, the elite and the plebe. between different issues, employees are turning out to be disillusioned with corporation lifestyles, households are undermined by means of discord and divorce, even the ruling Liberal Democratic social gathering collapsed (as did lots of its opponents). the japanese are ever tougher to steer and the politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen who as soon as led them are more and more useless. therefore, whereas many reforms are mooted, and a few are initiated, only a few are literally carried out. below those stipulations, the various unfavourable developments can't be halted - not to mention reversed - and the situation may still worsen.
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The same applies to higher education. This means that Japanese teachers have more students to look after, and they also have less adequate facilities and offices, and yet they have to put in many more hours than their counterparts abroad. For this, although they are paid somewhat higher wages, the rewards are rather mediocre. Inadequate school facilities and overworked teachers could, or so it might seem, be overcome by another aspect ofJapanese education which at first sight appears positive. Japanese children devote more time to school than children anywhere in the West (although less than in some Asian rivals like Korea).
And those chores taken on by subcontractors are even dirtier, more dangerous and more demanding. With differences in tenure, promotion, wages, and so on it is impossible to avoid differences in social position. These are more acute in Japanese society, where the requirements of status, hierarchy and even linguistic protocol place so much stress on higher and lower. There is no doubt that blue-collar workers (loin) are regarded as inferior, on the whole, to whitecollar employees (s/wkuin) despite any amount offonnal praise and tatnnae in favor of this backbone of industry.
And many of the changes are not for the best. Nor is the system itself always what it seems. For example, japan's early advances were traced back to the 'educational system' which existed prior to its opening and was credited with instilling a disposition to learn and a high degree of literacy. There were, in fact. schools. Samurai children were taught in hanko schools while village ch ild ren picked up the rudiments of reading and writing in tt7'akoya or temple schools. More generaUy, Confucianism supposedly inculcated 44 The School (EducatWn Runs Amuck) 45 a respect for knowledge.