Abstract
This is the first of a series of reviews of contemporary foreign materials concerned with reading instruction. Each will be written by an educator familiar with the developments of his country in this area. In this first article, Ichiro K. Sakamoto of the Women Teachers' College of Tokyo reviews a conference report on language education. Readers will be interested, we think, in the effects of the American occupation upon content and methods, the introduction of phonics, and the parallelism of American and Japanese instructional problems such as: dealing with individual differences; the real purpose of reading instruction; and child development and reading.