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Educational Japanese Textbooks on… Video Games

May 12th, 2007 by Brian · 1 Comment

 A textbook published by gaming company Capcom, dedicated to teaching children (through use of comics) about the ins and outs of video gaming culture, industry, history, and the creative process, distributed to primary schools and libraries all over Japan?

Why can’t WE have something like that?

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/11/capcom-releases-japanese-textbook-about-video-games/

Tags: Child's Play · Game Culture · Asides · Uncategorized

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  • 1 Soyoun // May 12, 2007 at 9:28 pm

    The leading groups of Japanese society usually consist of the Famicom generation people, I mean, in terms of age. They have been exposed to game culture for more than 20 years themselves. So in Japan, it must be natural to accept and understand present game culture, trend, and playful new experiments. Do the US governers, statemen, scholars have game experience from their early age? No. (Korea neither.)

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