Internationalization: Japan's educational challenge.

Contemporary Review | October 1, 1994| | Copyright

BY and large Japan and its kaigai (overseas partners), have been concerned only with internationalisation in financial terms. These days politicians, economists and educationalists see great future rewards for Japan out of the internationalisation of the fundamental Japanese character. A minimum bonus being Japan's hegemony in the influence of the Pacific rim nations.

The Japanese still tend to be unhappy internationalists. Their history was for centuries zenophobic when Japan entered sakoku (closing off the country) against gaijin (foreigners), under the isolationist ...

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