Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-294) and index.
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Introduction: the Potëmkin factor -- Myths, mendacity, and methodology -- State, nation, capital, and examinations: the shattering of knowledge -- Gazing and guiding: Japan's educatio-examination regime -- Schooling for science: the sociopsychology of student apathy -- Japanese higher education as simulated schooling -- Self-orientalism through occidentalism: how "english" and"foreigners" nationalize Japanese students -- "Playing dumb": students who pretend not to know -- Lessons learned in higher education -- The price of simulated schooling and "reform."