School experience helping tourists scrub up on Japanese education

Japan's education system is known for producing well-behaved and respectful children. Now tourists have a chance to dip their toe into the country's culture by taking part in an experience that puts them in the shoes of a Japanese school kid.Visitors get a taste of a system seen as a microcosm of Japanese society and a building block of national identity at a once abandoned junior high school near Tokyo thanks to the "Kimi no Koko" experience, which translates as "Your High School."But it is not just tourists who are interested, as the Japanese school experience has also been given the docu…READ FULL ARTICLE