I present various examples that show Japan must face anew the challenge of Deweyan democracy. Using Dewey's difficult experience in Japan as a context, I then consider how contemporary Japanese education can best engage with a philosophical question he left, a question involving the difficulty of understanding the different in the absence of common ground.

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