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Stakes and Stakeholders in the Japanese Educational System in Japancasting Podcast by Steve McCarty with Parveen Sharma, Ramesh C Sharma
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This is a 26-minute presentation on Japanese education given to American schoolteachers visiting Osaka Jogakuin College. It is a critical view, and the situation has become more relaxed overall since the time of this presentation, which was delivered in 2005, but the fairly complete picture of factors affecting education in Japan is still a relevant set of issues.