During the Taipei International Book Exhibition, Japanese cartoonist Kenshi Hirokane opined that despite the clamor for the development of the knowledge economy, the prospects for making knowledge the basis for Japan's future prosperity are worryingly poor, because Japanese education nowadays is too undemanding. For example, Japanese educators recently discussed simplifying the value of pi from 3.1416 to 3.
在發展知識經濟震天價響聲中，日本漫畫家弘兼憲史二月中旬應邀參加台北國際書展時指出，日本「知識立國」的前景堪慮，因為日本教育下一代的方式過於放任，日前就在討論欲將圓周率由以往的三・一四一六簡化成三。