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What the Japanese Junior Red Cross is doing about Disseminating the Geneva Conventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Sachiko Hashimoto
Sachiko Hashimoto*
Affiliation:
Director of the Japanese Junior Red Cross
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Japan owes all the credit of possessing a high rate of literacy to the school-teacher, to whom people look for any kind of guidance, sometimes too much. Parents go to teachers even for child guidance in the home and so do community leaders for help in community problems. It was been a tradition ever since the modern school system was introduced into this country 80 years ago to enlighten the people to such an extent as to be counted one of the best educated countries in the world within a short time.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 1 , Issue 9 , December 1961 , pp. 471 - 488
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1961

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References

page 479 note 1 The author's own comments below on the Geneva Conventions are printed in italics for greater emphasis. (Editorial Note).

page 480 note 1 The numbers in brackets show the number of the article in the four Conventions, the order of the numbers being that of the four Conventions.

page 486 note 1 In Japanese Schools a class is called a home-room. The term “longtime home-room” is used to describe a meeting of 45–50 minutes held every week, when students discuss together various subjects of wide general interests under guidance of the class teacher. There is the possibility for the teacher to present the principles of the Geneva Conventions for their discussion topics.