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Can education change Japan's 'depressed' generation?
Every lesson at Japanese schools starts with a simultaneous bow. "Let's try that again because your posture wasn't good," says a teacher to a room full of six and seven-year-olds. She then reminds the children to have their pencil boxes, notepads and textbooks on top of each other and placed at the left corner of their desks. The students obey without a single word of objection.
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So, a culture that is so focused around education and working long hours (inefficiently, from all accounts that I've heard), wants to fix it's problem by more education? How about easing up on every citizen and allowing kids to be kids, and adults to have a social and family life?