What do you see in this picture?

What is the teacher doing?

What are the students doing?

What subject is being taught?

How is this classroom similar to or different from an American classroom?

This is a photo of Japanese high school students learning math.

What do you see in this picture?

What is the teacher doing?

What are the students doing?

What method does the teacher appear to be using to teach sewing?

How would you describe the attitude of the students toward the teacher?

These are Japanese high school students watching their teacher demonstrate how to use a sewing machine.

What do you see in the picture?

Who is standing in the back of the room?

What gender are most of the parents?

Why might there be so many parents attending this class?

What does this image tell us about Japanese education?

Here Japanese elementary school children and their parents on the first day of kindergarten.

What do you see in this photo?

What do the student is these two photos have in common?

What appears to be the dress code for each group of students?

What do these images tell us about Japanese education?

In these two photos we see elementary school children in one and high school students in the other. Throughout their education, Japanese students in most schools wear uniforms.

What do you see in the slide?

What are students doing?

Why do you think students are required to clean classrooms and common areas of the school?

What purpose--other than to keep the school clean--might this exercise serve?

The is a photo of students cleaning the hallway and their classroom during homeroom (Kumi) at a high school in Hiroshima.

What do you see in this photo?

What are the students doing?

What is hanging behind the singers?

What other clubs are there in Japanese school?

What do the after-school clubs reveal about Japanese education?

This is a group of Japanese elementary school children singing a song.

What do you see in this picture?

What words or phrases describe the atmosphere?

In what ways does juku appear to be different from school?

Why might students attend another school in the afternoon after public school?

What does this reveal about Japanese education?

This is a group of high school students attending juku, or cram school, in preparation for the highly competitive college entrance exams.