Japanese society in 2011: part 1 of 3 | 世論 What Japan Thinks
Citizens of this collectivist nation think their fellow-citizens are not civic-minded enough and need to have more of it pushed on them. The politicians just got handed a gift with this survey. Note the false dichotomy of question 3, ” Given the two opinions “One should focus more on country and society” and “Satisfying one’s [...]
British news: migration
“It’s been too easy to get into this country in the past and it’s going to get harder,” said a UK immigration minister, according to this BBC news article. The article contains a link to an interesting map showing “total numbers of Eastern European migrants in each local authority who registered for work between May [...]
Japan news: over 100 teachers opt for demotion
For one of the classes I teach, I need to find news items in English about Japan (especially items that look at Japanese society from an unusual or non-Japanese point of view), and Japan Probe is a good source of such news. Japan Probe is a Japan news blog in English that focusses on general-interest [...]
Is evolution a fact or a theory?
School Gate is a (UK) Times Online blog about schools and schooling in Britain. I read it to keep abreast of what is going on in British education. Today’s entry is This Science expert says that children should be taught creationism at school The comments are particularly interesting and mostly well informed, but even more [...]
