The school system, like any other, usually has a standard system, with a few unique cases. Elementary lasts around six years and both middles school and high school last three years. The subjects required have more variety such as in the inclusion of learning English and home economics (e.i sewing, cooking, etc.). Cumpulsory education, unlike American systems does not last til you're 18, instead it lasts up to middle school, yet about 98% still move on to highschool.
Hours tend to rage but an average school day usually lasts around seven to eight hours which is actually more or less equivalent to the time I stay in school as well. Although what I found interesting was that classrooms are 'fixed'. "Instead of students moving around to the teachers, the teachers move around the student" (Tofugu). In the high school I attend, it's the students that move around, which I appreciate more as there are more different minds together although that's not to say that it's any complex.
Each systems encourages different values though as said by Mami Sukazi, raised in Japan and I believe it's rather true to it's name. "A great difference between the Japanese school system and the North American School system is that the North American people respect and encourage independence whereas the Japanese people control individual responsibility by maintaining group rules."
Sources: http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/schools/
https://www.tofugu.com/japan/my-japanese-education/
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