{"id":13056,"date":"2014-10-14T11:59:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T16:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=13056"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:21:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:21:21","slug":"berger-nyt-pardee-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2014\/10\/14\/berger-nyt-pardee-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Berger in NYT on Japan’s Divided Education Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Berger.001\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A New York Times<\/em><\/a> (October 12, 2014) report on a shifting and divided education strategy in Japan quotes Prof. Thomas Berger<\/a> of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies in pointing out that “Japan’s\u00a0simultaneous embrace of nationalism and cosmopolitanism is generating ambiguous signals from its education policy makers.”<\/p>\n

Prof. Berger, a leading expert on Japanese politics is quoted in the New York Times<\/a><\/em> report explaining the emerging shift and its implications:<\/p>\n

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There is an obvious contradiction between Japan\u2019s rightward shift on education policy and its strivings to internationalize.<\/p>\n

Japanese textbook policy is increasing tensions with Asia, undermining the willingness of Japanese to study in neighboring countries and of foreigners to come to Japan…\u201cEducation policy is caught on the horns of a dilemma: On the one hand, there are powerful economic and political pressures that favor internationalization \u2014 yet, in reality, Japan has been moving in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the full New York Times<\/em><\/a> report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thomas Berger<\/a> is the author of\u00a0War, Guilt and World Politics After World War II<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan<\/em>\u00a0and is co-editor of\u00a0Japan in International Politics: Beyond the Reactive State.<\/em>\u00a0His articles and essays have appeared in numerous edited volumes and journals, including\u00a0International Security<\/em>,\u00a0Review of International Studies<\/em>,\u00a0German Politics<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0World Affairs Quarterly<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thomas Berger points out to The New York Times that “Japan’s simultaneous embrace of nationalism and cosmopolitanism is generating ambiguous signals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9961],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13056"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13108,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056\/revisions\/13108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}