Promoting Reading in Japan
Interview with Miyoko Hida
Characters Culture Promotion Organization, Japan
Ms. Miyoko Hida is the Managing Director of the Characters Culture Promotion Organization. The Organization was established to perform operations to support reading activities in schools and local communities and to promote type-culture in local communities. Ms. Hida reports of the “Law to Promote Children’s Reading” and of an educational guidance that prioritizes language-related activities throughout all subjects.
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Bookstart Japan
http: / / www.bookstart.net /
Bookstart Japan is an independent non-profit organization that administrates the “Bookstart”-programme in Japan. It has set up a project, `Bookstart Asian Networking Project`, through which the collaborators aim to share their experience in Japan and contribute to the development of Bookstart around the world.
Bookstart in Japan was launched in 2000 with a pilot study in [ ... ]
Reading projects of the organisation “Bookstart Japan“