Japanese High School

Shoko Yoneyama is Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

• Chapter 1 Japanese students in crisis; Chapter 2 Methodology and comparative problems; Part 1 Control: the structure of silence; Chapter 3 Student–teacher relationships: the alienation paradigm; Chapter 4 Discipline and punishment: dehumanisation; Chapter 5 School rules: the web of regimentation; Chapter 6 Achievement pressure and the meaning of study; Part 2 Responses: conformity and resistance; Chapter 7 Ijime: the price of super-conformity; Chapter 8 Tokokyohi: Burnout and Resistance; Chapter 9 Conclusion;

'I recommend this book for reading by everyone who hopes to understand what Japan will be capable of achieving through its education system in the 21st century.' - Katalin Ferber, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture'This is a book I have been waiting for - as a teacher as well as a scholar - for a long time.' - Japanese Studies, Vol 20, No.1, 2000