Chapter 1 Background and Context of Education System in Japan

Chapter 2 Primary and Secondary Education

Chapter 3 Higher Education in Japan: Its Uniqueness and Historical Development

Chapter 4 Restructuring of Social Education and Lifelong Learning and Community Governance

Chapter 5 National and Local Educational Administration

Chapter 6 The Relationship Between Teachers’ Working Conditions and Teacher Quality

Chapter 7 Lesson Study

Chapter 9 A History of Schools and Local Communities in Modern Japan

Chapter 10 Background of “Individualized Meritocracy” Among Japanese Youth: Social Circulation Model of Postwar Japan and Its Collapse

Chapter 11 Discussing the “Multicultural” in Japanese Society

Chapter 12 Higher Education Reform: Focusing on National University Reform

Chapter 13 English Language Teaching and Learning in Japan: History and Prospect

Chapter 14 Safety Education from the Perspective of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)