Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's 1981 memoir of her unconventional childhood at Tomoe Gakuen school in WWII Japan — run by the progressive educator Sosaku Kobayashi — one of the best-selling Japanese books of all time (10M copies).
Creates the alternative education memoir — Totto-Chan's account of Tomoe Gakuen (where children set their own learning agenda and the school held classes in old train carriages) is the most widely read account of progressive education as lived experience.
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