Getting graded on your Japanese Lovin'

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Learning the love of country
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/top/story/0,4136,24711,00.html?

The [Japanese] Ministry of Education issued guidelines last year for a course called 'Fostering Love of Country'..students be graded on how patriotic they are. ... Asked Lee Han Eun, 32, who runs a Korean citizens' group: 'How is a Japanese teacher supposed to grade a Korean on love for country?'

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Learning the love of country
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/top/story/0,4136,24711,00.html?

The strange thing is that almost no Japanese schools follow the national law mandating the 'Love of country' curriculum. It's real odd but most Japanese teachers are old-school pinkos and hate these ring-wing laws.

FEW SCHOOLS COMPLY
'Love of country' curriculum hitThe Japan Times / Tuesday, May 13, 2003
...according to a recent survey by a Japanese newspaper, less than 200 of Japan's 24,000 public elementary schools are complying. Parents and citizens' groups are protesting, and a spokesman for the nation's largest teachers union said in an interview that he questioned the constitutionality of the guidelines.


Leftist Theater's "The Gas" 1930 / "A Town without the Sun" ca.1930

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Learning the love of country
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/top/story/0,4136,24711,00.html?

Here's some insight via the Tokyo Progressivesite...

Howard Zinn on Patriotism (My Country: the World)
In this article, history professor Howard Zinn (A people's History of the United States) asks why "love of country" is distorted to mean "love of government"?