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Please write essay on Japanese education system, necessary topics are age groups for different levels of schooling elementary, middle, and secondary school information and facts literacy rate schools, how many students university number of them and courses offered other types of schools they have (culinary, trade, cosmetic, etc.) how coronavirus has affected their education system Provide all information and compare come things to what America has

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Japan’s education system is very different to the US education system. The basic school system in Japan is composed of elementary school (lasting six years), middle school (three years), high school (three years), and university (four years). Education is compulsory only for the nine years of elementary and middle school, but 98.8% of students go on to high school. In Japan, the school year begins in April and ends in March. In America, the school year starts in August or September and ends in May or June. Also, students in Japan have fewer days off than American students. There are no school buses in Japan. In Japanese public kindergartens, mothers take their kids to school, often by bicycle. Public elementary schools and junior high schools are close enough for the students to walk to school. In urban areas like Tokyo, students must walk to school — no bicycles allowed. But in more rural areas of Japan, kids are often permitted to ride their bikes to school. High schools in Japan require passing an entrance exam to attend, so these schools usually require the students to take a short commute by train. Private schools in Japan, on the other hand, aren’t usually within walking distance from the students’ homes. Kids who attend private schools can be seen commuting by train with their classmates.  In Japanese public schools, elementary school kids wear street clothes to school, like in American schools. But starting in junior high, they must wear a school uniform. In Japanese schools, everyone must remove their shoes at the entrance and change into 上履き (indoor shoes). In Japanese elementary and junior high schools students and teachers all eat the same school lunch. There are no choices. In most high schools, students and teachers are required to bring a 弁当 (packed lunch) from home. And very few Japanese schools have a cafeteria. Students eat lunch in their classroom at their desk. In American schools, cafeteria workers prepare the school lunches and then serve the students, but in Japan, the cooks cook the lunch and students take turns serving lunch to their classmates. There are no janitors in Japanese schools. The students clean their school everyday. In junior high and high school in Japan, almost every student joins an after school club or team. 夏休み (summer vacation) is about five weeks long in Japan. It’s about twice as long in America. During summer vacation Japanese students have to go to school many times for their school club or team practice. Also, Japanese students must do a lot of homework during summer vacation. In American schools, there are no 入学式 (school entrance ceremony), and 卒業式 (school graduation) isn’t until high school has been completed. In Japan, there are both — for kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, high school and college. In America, school grades are counted as 1 -5 for 小学校 (elementary school), 6-8 for 中学校 (junior high) and 9-12 for 高等学校 (high school). In Japan, elementary school is six years (grades 小1-6), junior high is three years (grades 中1-3), and high school is also three years (grades 高校 1-3). There are many other differences, such as the way homework and tests are administered and checked, the manner that classes are arranged, the fact that Japanese students stand and greet their teacher at the beginning and end of each class, and the way that students are trusted in empty classrooms alone — even in kindergarten.

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Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life. Japan’s literacy rate for 2018 was 99.00%, a 0% increase from 2015. Classes are large, with an average of thirty-eight students per class, and each class is assigned a homeroom teacher, doubling as a counselor. Unlike kindergarten students, primary school students have different teachers for different subjects.  percentage of Japanese going on to any higher education institution in the eighteen-year-old cohort was 80.6 percent, with 52.6 percent of students going on to a university. In 2017, more than 2.89 million students were enrolled in Japan’s 780 universities. At the top of the higher education structure are research institutions that provide four-year training leading to a bachelor’s degree, and some offer six-year programs leading to a professional degree.

The top courses offered by The School of Global Japanese Studies (SGJS)

• Global Japanese
• Political Science and Economics.
• Arts and Letters.
• Science and Technology.
• Business Administration.

While university is by far the most prestigious form of education in Japan, many Japanese students choose to attend technical schools, junior colleges, and vocational schools instead. These schools provide them with job skills without the intense pressure of the university admissions process.

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