If you want to get a pretty good handle on what's going on regarding the teaching of English in Japan, read this article, this editorial, and this reader submission, all of which recently appeared in The Japan Times Online.
As for my own two cents regarding the level of English being taught in South Korea and China, compared to Japan:
From what I learned during my one week in Korea, I'm convinced me that English is stressed a lot more there than in Japan.
And from talking to a random few of the junior-high school students from China who visited my school today, it is clear to me that their English is greatly superior to that of the junior-high students who I teach.
So, yeah, I, too, am pretty sure, based on my own unscientific evidence/research, that China and South Korea are doing something right in this matter that Japan isn't.
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