Product Description: Japanese animation, video games, and manga have attracted fans around the world. The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities that come out of these cultural products are together called Japan Cool. This is not a sudden fad, but is rooted in manga―Japanese comics―which since the mid-1940s have developed in an exponential way...read more

Product Description: This book presents policies in language and education, and implementation in specific settings. It describes the historical background that led to the development of these policies, and presents the institutional context of the schools where reading is taught...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)