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  2. Education in Japan - Wikipedia

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    In the 1890s, Japan saw a rise in reformers, child experts, magazine editors, and educated mothers who embraced new ideas about childhood and education. They introduced the upper middle class to a concept of childhood that involved children having their own space, reading children's books, playing with educational toys, and spending significant ...

  3. Science and technology in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Since 1973, Japan has been looking to become less dependent on imported fuel and start to depend on nuclear energy. In 2008, after the opening of 7 brand new nuclear reactors in Japan (3 on Honshū, and 1 each on Hokkaidō, Kyūshū, Shikoku, and Tanegashima) [4] Japan became the third largest nuclear power user in the world with 55 nuclear ...

  4. List of emerging technologies - Wikipedia

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    Blue Brain Project, Human Brain Project: Brain–computer interface: Research and commercialization Faster communication and learning, as well as more "real" entertainment (generation of feelings and information in brain on-demand) and the control of emotions in the mentally ill [112] Experience machine, Neuralink, Stent-electrode recording array

  5. Top Global University Project - Wikipedia

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    The Top Global University Project (スーパーグローバル大学創成支援, Sūpā gurōbaru daigaku sōsei shien) is a funding project by the Japanese government that began in 2014. [1] The project aims to enhance the globalization of the country's public and private universities so that graduates can "walk into positions of global ...

  6. Electronics industry in Japan - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] Japan's education system has also been highlighted as a possible contributing factor. [10] The lack of adaptation to the Digital Revolution and the shift from hardware to software-oriented product development has also been cited. [11] One response to the challenges has been a rise in company mergers and acquisitions.

  7. Learning standards - Wikipedia

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    At present, learning standards have become an important part of the standards-based education reform movement, in which learning standards are tied directly to rubrics and assessments in many schools; standardized tests are often used for grade-level evaluations within districts and states, and across states; standardized exams are used to ...

  8. Elementary schools in Japan - Wikipedia

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    An elementary school class in Japan In Japan, elementary schools ( 小学校 , Shōgakkō ) are compulsory to all children begin first grade in the April after they turn six— kindergarten is growing increasingly popular, but is not mandatory—and starting school is considered a very important event in a child's life.

  9. The British School in Tokyo - Wikipedia

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    The British School in Tokyo, commonly known as BST, is an international private school in central Tokyo with over 1,300 students from over 65 nationalities,. BST takes students aged 3–18 that have been rated in all eight areas examined by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI). [1]