That video looks pretty old. It says "Feb 1996" in its description, so I'm assuming this is when it was made. I point this out because my experience in Japan with elementary school kids in more recent years was quite different. I found them to be rowdy and coddled, to the extent that it seemed like they were almost afraid to discipline the kids; I'm not sure if this is because of being in the countryside or because of actual changes in pedagogy. Still, I found this attitude typically persisted until about the 2nd or 3rd year of middle school (8th and 9th grade in the U.S.). I don't know how many times a kid did something and I thought to myself, "I would have never gotten away with that in my school
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