Education in Japan may be considered a cult supported by family, society and the government. Since childhood studying is supposed to be intensive and constant.
After day care, it all starts with school selection that must be high-profile. To enter the best university, young Japanese have to win the contest and pave their way into a respected and flourishing company.
The so-called 'lifelong job' established in Japan gives a person only one try to get an honorable place in society and education seems to be a guarantee that the try will be successful.
Day care
In Japan, the day care is not obligatory and optional for parents to choose. Optimal age is 4, but some facilities may provide 3 if parents are too busy. In day care, they learn arithmetic and how to read hiragana and katakana.
Exams and hardships
Exams are obligatory to get into school. Those who fail can study in preliminary school and try their best next year.
Education in elementary and secondary schools is obligatory and free, unlike in high school and university which are paid.
In elementary school, teachers do not give homework, but they do give them in secondary and high schools in big amounts that make Japanese pupils most hardworking people in the world. At least it seems so.
Rules to obey
Most of the schools have strict rules for behavior and appearance. For example, only natural hair color is allowed. Some rules forbid girls to make frizzle, nail polish or wear jewelry. Scholars can wear socks only of white, black or deep blue colors. The brown ones can be confiscated due to the rules transgression.
Subjects
The average class contains 30 to 40 persons. To write and read scholars have to know nearly 2500 symbols. They need to know three kinds of hieroglyphs - correct Japanese, Japanese version of Chinese ones and Latin.
The main subjects are mathematics, Japanese, social sciences, crafting, music and PT. Recently they started to teach English in elementary schools.
Clubs and groups
The classes are usually divided into smaller groups that perform different activities like cleaning of the class, yard and gym. A club is a significant factor in school life. Most of the schools encourage students to participate in one of two clubs: a sport club (football, kendo, baseball, judo, light athletics, swimming, volleyball, etc.) or a club of culture (mathematics, sciences, pen craft, etc.).
Digital vacations
In Japan, children go to elementary school during 6 years, 3 years in secondary one, 3 years in high school and 4 years in university.
The summer rest lasts for 40 days starting since July 20 to August 31. Winter vacations are 10 days and start since December 26 to January 6. The same are in spring, and they start on March, 25 and end on April, 5. The Japanese studying year starts in April.
In Japan, they go to school on Saturdays too. The studying day lasts from 8:30 to 15:00.
Food policy
Scholars are prohibited to take any snack in educational facility, even medicines like candies for throat ache because candies are food. There is a diet doctor in every school who observes the health condition, correct nutrition and menu.
Freedom of choice and career
Students go to universities by car. There is no such notion as a school bus in Japan. They walk, ride bicycles or use city transport. In elementary school children usually go to in small groups.
The higher your results in entering exams, the higher is the possibility that you will get a support from a big company that may pay for your education in college. Then you go to work and company excludes the educational fee from the salary.
In university students choose the subjects on their own. They do not need to compose a diploma paper. However, they need to write reports on a few pages, often resorting to the help of Writing-Team. It should be noted that informational technologies are widely used in the educational process, and each school has an Internet.
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