| [note 2] The Ministry call it "a screening system".But it is almost as same as censorship system, because getting approval for a school book is very difficult in Japan. For example, only several school books are approved for each subject in each grade. In addition, large school book publishers have monopolized this market.It is often seen that only one or two school books account for 70-80%, or even 100%, of the texts on a particular subject. |