Japan ranked either first or second in all three categories—literacy, numeracy and adaptive problem-solving skills—of an international survey of adult skills. The Organization for Economic ...

In an advanced country like Japan, literacy is almost taken for granted. We assume the people around us can read and write without trouble. But it has been decades since anyone looked closely at ...

this book is a translation of the first work written in Japanese on the history of literacy in Japan. The authors are each accomplished scholars of Japanese educational history, and each provides ...