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Educating Andy: The Experiences of a Foreign Family in the Japanese Elementary School System

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I don't understand why it's so difficult to get a copy of this book because I thought it was terrific and relevant for any non-Japanese interested in the Japanese elementary school experience. It was full of pithy, real-life accounts of the ups and downs of an Australian boy and his mother in the fifth and sixth grade in a public school in Tokyo. I couldn't give it five stars because it seemed like a lot of the details were recalled long after they had occurred and so I occasionally wanted more details. A daily diary would have been more reliable. However, the mother had a lot of different schools to compare this one to because they had traveled to several countries together and also been in a private international school in Japan. I felt her insights had true global perspective for comparing and contrasting the Japanese public school.