LifeTimes

Greetings again, everyone! We’re already a month into the new school year here in Japan — the first school year of the new millennium — and along with it, no doubt, a slew of more news stories to appear in the media about how schools appear to be failing Japanese children.

But for us homelearners in Japan, there is a bit of good news of a different kind: One year ago this very day, a family in the global homelearning community was featured in a prominent news story on child-raising that was published in a major daily newspaper in Japan’s capital city. And guess what: The story even turned out to be respectful of, and open to, homelearning as an alternative to school.

This edition of KnoK NEWS has turned out to be a double feature, so our report this time is being sent in two separate sections: In the first section, we look at the Tokyo Shimbun coverage. In the second section, we wrap up our two-part “Q & A on Homeschooling in Japan” by a respected Japanese homelearning advocate and parent.
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