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1. Less strenuous education’s purpose in students develop “power of life”.

2. Courses of study in the Japanese curriculum were greatly changed.

3. OECD reported that Japanese scholastic ability appears to be declining.

4. The Minister of Education acknowledged the negative effect of new courses of study.

5. Less strenuous education has advantage and disadvantage.

6. It is important to develop “power of life”, but we should avoid a drop in scholastic ability.

Sources

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%86%E3%81%A8%E3%82%8A%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2

http://www.mext.go.jp/ (http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/shotou/gakuryoku-chousa/sonota/071205/001.pdf)

by Yuna Negishi