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Okano also introduces the increasing support from the government and how nonformal schooling is beginning to be granted privileges that were once only available to formal schools. As Okano herself writes, this is a new topic to many in English-language scholarship on Japan and this section neatly displays how the back and forth between different stakeholders impacts schooling. Japan's education system has long been a source of fascination for people from a wide variety of fields: from those who wished to emulate it during the heyday of the economic boom, to those who focused on what it had to say about Japan more broadly - warts and all. [Extracted from the article]

The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - And Why They Stop: by Adam Kucharski BASIC BOOKS, 2020, 352 PP., US$30.00, ISBN-13: 978154167431 Furthermore, in the context of fear transmission, an important realization over the past decade is that while contagion in social systems and disease transmission were initially considered similar, they are now known to be substantially different. Moreover, when describing social contagion in terms of epidemiological concepts, Kucharski tends to focus on the similarities between the various kinds of contagion, often leaving out important differences. [Extracted from the article]

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