9780897892186 | Praeger Pub Text, September 21, 1990, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: Explains how social changes in Japan are affecting its educational system, and discusses the issues of discipline and students' rights

9781873410103 | Japan Library, September 1, 1991, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Having accepted that Japan is already a great power and recognizing that "our unease over them generally finds its inspiration in the fact that their moment in history has arrived", the book then sets out to explore where Japan is going and takes education as a focus within Japanese culture in an attempt to find the answer.

9781557290311 | Univ of California Inst of East, February 1, 1992, cover price $10.00

9780773496095 | Edwin Mellen Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $109.95

9780521622523 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $119.99

9780521626866 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $49.99

9780815321156 | Routledge, December 1, 2003, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: This detailed ethnographic study of fifth- and sixth-grade classrooms offers new insights into Japanese culture, as many aspects of daily social life are embedded in the educational system.

9780415556873 | Routledge, November 19, 2012, cover price $145.00

9781138851771 | Routledge, February 27, 2015, cover price $54.95

9780804797078 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 23, 2016, cover price $85.00

9780804798532 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 23, 2016, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The Strange Child examines how the Japanese financial crisis of the 1990s gave rise to "the child problem," a powerful discourse of social anxiety that refocused concerns about precarious economic futures and shifting ideologies of national identity onto the young.