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12 <p><strong>Go In Japanese Education</strong>
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14 <p><strong>© 2002 Milton N. Bradley</a></strong>
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16 <p>To understand the Japanese experience and assess its relevance to the US, some historical
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17 background is helpful. Go was brought to Japan from China in the 8<sup>th </sup>century A.D. and quickly
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18 became the favorite intellectual pastime of the nobility and Samurai. In 1612, only a few years
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19 after he became Shogun in 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu institutionalized Go by establishing the Go
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20 Academy, and this exalted and specially privileged position for Go in Japanese society remained
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21 intact for over 250 years until the fall of the Shogunate in the 1868 revolution. Although in
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22 today's Japan Go masters are "only" respected and wealthy professionals (like those in Sumo,
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23 Tennis or Golf), Go still occupies a unique position of honor in Japanese cultural life on a par
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24 with that of art, literature and music. An estimated 10,000,000 million Japanese (almost 10% of
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25 the entire population!) are ardent Go players, including many of their business executives and 4
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26 of their 6 Nobel Prize winners, and its popularity is so great that tutorial programs and
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27 championship matches are routinely broadcast on national TV.
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29 <p>Mr.Kazuaki Minami, author of a book called "Go and Education", says <em><strong>"One of the most
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30 important things that Go gives a child is the ability to concentrate"</strong></em>. Richard Bozulich of
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31 Tokyo's Ishi Press reports that Dr.Akira Tano, a Japanese educational researcher and head of the
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32 Child Psychology department at Chiba National University, has done extensive testing of young
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33 Japanese children and has concluded that <strong><em>"studying GO is the best way to develop a child's
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34 innate intellectual abilities"</strong>.</em> He also points out that <em>"the younger a child learns to play GO, the
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35 better the results"</em>, and considers the age of 4 or 5 to be the best at which to begin. (At this early
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36 age, most children typically learn Go <em>informally</em> by the same method of "osmosis" used in
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37 acquiring language - just by being immersed in a milieu in which it is being practiced, in this
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38 case simply by watching the excellent play of their parents and the experts shown on TV.)
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