Japan's information technology industry is about five years behind the United States and there is a need to rapidly promote IT education here by training teachers, a 15-year-old American business prodigy says.
Cameron Johnson, a high school student in Roanoke, Va., who serves as chief executive officer of two Internet-related companies, said it is the government's responsibility to establish a school system requiring teachers to master use of computers and guide students.
"I'm sure there were problems at one point, but now state governments require pretty much every school system to have computers, and there are requirements teachers have to meet," Johnson said of the U.S. education system, noting all of his friends had access to computers when he was 7.