Playing with fire
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3578090
Jan 20th 2005 | TOKYO
From The Economist print edition
Japan's ruling party wants to inject patriotism into schools
THE timing struck some as particularly unfortunate. This week, ten
years after an earthquake killed 6,433 people in Kobe, a worthy
international conference there drew lessons from natural disasters in
Japan and elsewhere. Meanwhile in Tokyo, a rather less worthy gathering
of members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) assembled to
ignore the lessons of another terrible disaster-this one man-made,
and the cause of far more death and destruction. In the course of
approving its policy agenda for 2005, the LDP decided that it would
revise the country's basic law on education. The current draft
revisions include a plan to make pupils more patriotic. Because
patriotic-sounding educational "reforms"-following the Imperial
Rescript on Education in 1890-also preceded Japan's 20th-century
descent into militarism, this is an inflammatory idea.
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