The Differences Between Japan and The U.S.

Japanese education is different from American one. In Japan, we attach greater importance to acquiring public morality, so keeping social order is also recognized as educational purpose. The content of Japanese education is criticized it places too much emphasis on knowledge. What is called “Education Stressing”. That’s why other countries take the view that we lack critical thinking power, creative power and communication or negotiating power. In Japanese education, including discipline, children are brought up freely and unhabitually in childhood, however the more they aged, the more instill rules to them. This trend is opposite of American education. On the other hand, Japanese education is epoch-making and tends to treat students as a group than as an individual. And that sometimes it is criticized that it lacks the function developing children’s critical thinking power. The biggest difference between them is that skipping a grade doesn’t exist in Japan. So the results of examinations are not important and your graduate school brand is much important.


In America, they have their own tradition of programmatic, and are keeping the tradition of Elite education originated from Europe. Basically, they’re said that they trend to respect independence of the individuals. You can negotiate about rules and so on in every ways, and when you try to enter the school , you will be examined closely from various points of views.

There are so many differences between Japan and American education. But they have an advantage and a disadvantage each other. In Japanese education, they took great importance to knowledge, so children must be busy with memorizing their textbooks. They become a grownup and face the international conference. Their lack will be clear! In American education, They have critical thinking power and communication or negotiating power but they lack knowledge. I think it is the most dangerous thing that people don’t know their own history, a war will happen because they don’t know the cruelty of wars.

I think we should develop our education with imitating each other’s advantages!