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Expectations and traditions are so important in Japan that they seem more important than the expectations and goals of a regular person: education in Japan reflects that fact.

Japanese education is based on the thought of “the reward of hard-work and perseverance is success”; it also builds good habits in a student. The main objective of the education in Japan is to build a society with strong beliefs, values and that the illiteracy disappears from the country.

The system of education of this amazing country is always pushing the student to the top, for example, the university exam is a proof for the students and they must show that their level is better than after they graduated from high school.

Some children begin their education early in preschool but this stage is not considered in the education system, other children begin it at the age of six. The Japanese system of education is free and every student has the right to study from the age of six to the age of fifteen.

Most students that finish the first level of education, or primary school pass to the second level or junior high school, and less than half of those students pass to high school or third level or superior education. There are also two possibilities in this part where young students can choose between: studying in a university or in a technical institution.

The education in Japan has the following levels:

Institutional level Grade Age Institutional level
Elementary School
(??? Shogakko)		 1 6  
2 7
3 8
4 9
5 10
6 11
Junior High School
(??? chugakko)		 7 12  
8 13
9 14
High School
(???? kotogakko, abbr. ?? koko)		 10 15 Technical Education
(?? kosen)
11 16
12 17
Professional Education
(?? daigaku)		   18
  19
  20  
  21

Education in Japan is wonderful and it is improving every day. The management of schools is administrated by the government and they take care of everything that a school may need.

Although education in private schools is not better than public education, it plays an important role in Japanese education. Since private education give benefits to the country.


Other Facts

Teaching Methods
The teaching methods of Japanese professionals are statics, because the training in teaching methods is so rigid that the ability of the professors to develop a new method is almost zero.

Students Exchange
There is a part in Japanese education in which students can apply for programs to do a student exchange, for example: foreign students travel to regions of Japan to learn Japanese and Japanese students travel to the USA to learn English. This kind of exchange is done with almost all the countries in the north hemisphere. And most of the students return happy for what they lived and for the new experiences that they had while abroad.
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