"Japan's Education System Is Successful" In the writing, Walberg attributes Japan's economic success to the superior education of its youth. He stresses that Japan does a better job of educating its nation and the U.S. should follow in Japan's foot steps. He emphasizes the U.S. should change its system of education to produce more productive and smarter children. Walberg links national prosperity to education. He believes that educating children and teaching them to become more than mediocre can help a nation to survive. Smart children can solve the nation's problems and invent new machinery to bring in