A Focus on Pedagogy

Abstract

Unfortunately, the Japanese mandatory inoculation policy ceased in 1994, leading to the lack of flexibility to adapt to the 1996 HIV crisis and the 2001 Anthrax world threat. In result, Japan’s dependency upon imported vaccines for survival under the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic became evident. In 27 years of neglect, the Japanese vaccine industry simply withered away as “non-existent” even today. The pandemic havoc spread throughout Japan disrupting the complexity of the social economic structure. The Tokyo Olympics and the Paralympics was postponed but held in 2021. Meanwhile, the games continued leading to a consecutive wave of Covid-19 variants while Pfizer and Moderna vaccine rollout was in progression. In April of 2021, Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology ordered all universities and schools to return back to face to face education. Compared to the previous year, universities have returned on-line with an innovative flexible stance in the fall session. The Delta variant death rates have significantly decreased down to “zero deaths” on November 8th, 2021. Although universities were ready for the “on-line 2020 adjustable shift” within a week, Japan’s secondary educational institutions with their positive adamant egalitarian view of education continued, as “business as usual”, for they found it difficult to comply with the technical shift. Japan’s tech prepared culture was just a façade within the complexity of reality. This paper will discuss and introduce new true innovative “tech savvy” resilient on-line applications with “educational challenges” that the author faced, in a national university, while using a hybrid stance to assist, support, and sustain the new compliant egalitarian approach for all students including those with hearing impairment conditions under the pandemic.