This collection of essays presents a rationale for incorporating teaching about Japan in the K-12 curriculum. The volume provides practical examples and guidelines about how to achieve this goal. The essays are organized into three main categories--professional development, curriculum design and enhancement, and exchange. The essays include: "Rationales for Teaching about Japan: Some Reflections" (D. Grossman); "Internationalizing the Social Studies Teacher Education Program: Japan as a Case Study" (P. Weiss); "In-Service Workshops" (R. Martin); "Summer Institutes in the United States" (K. Woods Masalski; L. Wojtan); "Anatomy of a Curriculum Development Project" (G. Mukai); "Creating a Japanese Teaching Resource Center" (Y. Oguzertem; C. Risinger); "Developing Precollegiate Japanese Language Programs" (D. Spence); "Effective Study Tours: Predeparture, On-Site, and Follow-through Activities" (L. Parisi; D. Christian); "Exchange: Bringing People and Ideas Together" (J. Cogan); "Contemporary U.S.-Japan Business Relations: Issues and Networking" (D. Barry; L. Ellington); and "Dwelling in the Experience of Others: Intercultural Collaboration in Action, Japanese Dimensions" (B. Finkelstein). An annotated bibliography of approximately 80 items also is included, as well as lists of organizations numbering 13 educational exchange organizations and 14 members of the National Precollegiate Japan Projects Network. (DB)