By LISA VOGT/ Special to Asahi Weekly
December 21, 2021 at 07:30 JST
Wooden desks and chairs are exhibited in the 1960s classroom setting at the Museum of MEXT. Samples of nostalgic stationery are also on display. (Photo by Lisa Vogt)
Inside the Museum of MEXT (short for Monbukagakusho, the education ministry) in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward is a display of celebrity-signed shikishi (square pieces of thick white paper used to write messages or sign autographs) with ikiru chikara written on them. I see and hear this phrase often in the context of children’s education, but somehow, “the power to live” never resonated much with me. [Read More]
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