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Mongolians in 2016 resisted populism, streamed to the polls, and ensured a change in government. Populist candidates were soundly defeated, surprising in the context of a dire economic situation and a crushing public debt that left the new government almost no room for legislative initiatives.

In 2015, Mongolia continued to realize some of its significant economic and democratic potential. At the same time, it faced notable economic hurdles, some of its own making and some created externally in its tough immediate neighborhood.

Das schnelle wirtschaftliche Wachstum Japans in der Nachkriegszeit ist vielfach mit der Qualität des Bildungssystems in Verbindung gebracht worden. Dieser Beitrag erläutert die Rolle von Privatschulen innerhalb des japanischen Bildungssystems und hebt dabei besonders die Stellung der privatwirtschaftlich organisierten Zusatzschulen (Juku) hervor, deren Erfolg einerseits mit den Selektionsmechanismen im öffentlichen Schulwesen im Zusammenhang steht, andererseits aber auf die zunehmende Verunsicherung japanischer Eltern und Schüler zurückgeht. Ihr Mangel an pädagogischer Innovation steht in Kontrast zu ihrer wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung. (DIPF/Orig.) ; Japan's fast economic growth during the post-war period has often been connected with the quality of its educational system. The author analyzes the role of private schools within the Japanese educational system and, in this, focuses on the additional schools organized as private industries (Juku), the success of which is, on the one hand, related to the selective mechanisms of the state school system, but which is also due to an increasing uncertainty among Japanese parents and students. The schools' lack of pedagogical innovation stands in sharp contrast to their economic significance. (DIPF/Orig.)

Dierkes reviews EMOTIONS AT WORK: Normative Control, Organizations, and Culture in Japan and America by Aviad E. Raz.

Dierkes reviews MARXIST HISTORY AND POSTWAR JAPANESE NATIONALISM by Curtis Anderson Gayle.

Dierkes reviews 'THE WEB OF POWER: Japanese and German Development Cooperation Policy' by Kozo Kato.

DOI: 10.5564/mjia.v0i13.16Mongolian Journal of International Affairs No.13 2006 pp.147-149

Preliminary Material /Julian Dierkes -- Introduction: Research on Contemporary Mongolia /Julian Dierkes -- Finding the Buddha Hidden below the Sand: Youth, Identity and Narrative in the Revival of Mongolian Buddhism /Matthew King -- Formal and Informal Networks in Post-socialist Mongolia: Access, Uses, and Inequalities /Byambajav Dalaibuyan -- Democracy and Risk: Mongolians' Perspectives /Paula Sabloff -- Local Leaders between Obligation and Corruption: State Workplaces, the Discourse of 'Moral Decay', and 'Eating Money' in the Mongolian Province /Astrid E. Zimmermann -- Did the Social and Economic Transition Cause a Health Crisis in Mongolia? Evidence from Age- and Sex-Specific Mortality Trends (1965–2009) /Mungunsarnai Ganbold and Thomas Spoorenberg -- Occupational Safety and the Health of Miners as Challenge to Policy-Making in Mongolia? /Oyuntogos Lkhasuren -- Changes in Pastoral Land Use and Their Effects on Rangeland Vegetation Indices /Temuulen Tsagaan Sankey , Joel Sankey , Keith Weber and Cliff Montagne -- Collaborative Pasture Management: A Solution for Grassland Degradation in Mongolia? /Raffael Himmelsbach -- The Twilight of Pastoralism? Livelihood, Mobility, Differentiation, and Environmental Engagement on the Inner Asian Steppe /Troy Sternberg -- Mining, Resistance and Pastoral Livelihoods in Contemporary Mongolia /Caroline Upton -- The Cultural Logics of Illegality: Living Outside the Law in the Mongolian Gold Mines /Mette M. High -- Mongolia's Mining Controversies and the Politics of Place /Sarah Combellick-Bidney -- Conclusion: Mongolia in the First Twenty Years of the 21st Century /Julian Dierkes and Byambajav Dalaibuyan -- Bibliography /Julian Dierkes -- Index /Julian Dierkes.

The contributions in Change in Democratic Mongolia: Social Relations, Health, Mobile Pastoralism, and Mining represent analyses from around the world across the social sciences and form a substantial part of the state of the art of research on contemporary Mongolia. Chapters examine Buddhist revival and the role of social networks, perceptions of risk, the general state of health of the population and the impact that mining activities will have on this. The changes of patterns of nomadism are equally central to an understanding of contemporary Mongolia as the economic focus on natural resource.

History education is the official version of modern national identities. This book is a remarkable unveiling of how three countries changed their portrayal of history after disastrous defeat in World War II. The book traces these portrayals through extensive, over-time middle school history textbook and curriculum analyses.