Teaching methods are one reason—but the English language doesn’t help

What’s on this month

Aung San Suu Kyi is serving Burma better than ever

Kim Jong-un knows what he's doing. The US must seize the initiative

North Korea is testing the patience of Beijing

The past ten years of economic stagnation in Japan has been a period of creative destruction. As the "iron triangle" of big business, elite bureaucracy and conservative politics has crumbled-so have the stifling hierarchies of Japanese life.

For women, the sexual revolution has finally reached Japan. Will the Japanese share their love with China?

Yael Tamir, a professor of philosophy, looks at what our revulsion at clitoridectomy tells us about ourselves

Can developing countries enjoy fast economic growth and political freedom? Does the provision of decent health care and education in such countries stimulate or restrain wealth creation? Amartya Sen addresses these two momentous questions in respect to India, a democracy…