Compulsory education in Japan totals 9 years, from age 6 to 15, and 97 percent of those elementary and lower secondary schools are public, established and maintained by the municipalities. This report describes the present situation and the future trends of educational facilities in public compulsory education schools, together with an explanation…

A study at the University of Aizu (Japan) investigated characteristics of technical writing assignments composed in English as a second language on computer workstations and by hand. The in-class workstation essays and hand-written essays of 24 students revealed that while all were of similar overall quality, the workstation essays were not as…