This document comprises volume I of the national reports on the elementary/primary school curriculum in Asia and the Pacific sponsored by the National Institute for Educational Research (NIER) in Tokyo, Japan. Each nation's report is organized under the following topics: (1) general information on the geography and population, educational system, qualifications and training of teachers, research, and educational problems and issues; (2) the integrated curriculum, including content, inputs, process, and product; (3) moral/religious/values education, including the context, instructional process, evaluation and feedback, and problems and issues; (4) work-oriented education, including context, instructional process, evaluation and feedback, and problems and issues; (5) curriculum load, including definition, concerns of teachers and parents, general assessment, problems, nature and amount of homework, effect on enrollment and achievement, major studies on curriculum load, and modification of the curriculum. The national reports included in volume I are arranged alphabetically as follows: Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, and Nepal. (TE)