Reflections and Insights on the Comparative Policies of China and Japan in Regulating Shadow Education in the Context of China’s Double Reduction Policy

Abstract

China's central government has announced a double reduction policy to ease the pressure on students and to regulate and manage the shadow education industry. In contrast, the Japanese shadow education policy has been developed over a long period of time and has achieved certain results and accumulated more mature experience. The purpose of this article is to compare and study the various governance policies adopted by the Japanese government and the Chinese government's double reduction policy on shadow education and their results in order to identify the shortcomings in the Chinese government's double reduction policy. The results of the survey and comparison show that although both Japan and China have implemented strict restrictions on the shadow education industry, China's policies have not promoted the healthy development of the shadow education industry, and there are still more flaws in the management approach and policy implementation. In the future, the Chinese government needs to learn from Japan's shadow education policy in order to promote the healthy and sustainable development of the industry in China.