Reforming education in postwar Japan: American planning for a Democratic Japan, 1943-1946 / Edward R. Beauchamp -- History textbook reform in allied occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Yoko H. Thakur -- Ienaga Saburo and the first postwar Japanese history textbook / John Caiger -- Textbook censorship in Japan: the Ienaga Case / Irie Yoshimasa -- Language and politics: the reversal of postwar script reform policy in Japan / Nanette Gottlieb -- Lessons from the Kokugo (National language) readers / Elaine Gerbert -- Education / Edward R. Beauchamp -- Postwar Japanese education: a history of reform and counterreform / Ikuo Amano -- What is a successful school? / Catherine C. Lewis -- Higher education in Japan / Louis D. Hayes -- Burakumin protest: the incident at Yōka High School / Susan J. Pharr -- From school to work in Japan / Larry Rhodes and Morimitsu Nakamura -- Linguistic minorities and education in Japan / John Maher -- Teacher education reform in Japan: ideological and control issues / Nobuo K. Shimahara -- Japan's Juken industry / Turvia Blumenthal -- Role of the education mama / Tony Dickensheets -- Among friends: the seductive power of bullying / Nishiyama Akira -- Case for cultural exchange