Initially, the local Chinese publisher, Thinkingdom, found it difficult to promote the title due to geopolitical issues between China and Japan, such as the ongoing dispute over the uninhabited Senkaku (also know as Diaoyutai) Islands in the East China Sea. At pixel time it has sold more than 5.8 million copies in Japan and has been translated into more than 16 languages including many local Indian languages, a country, like China and Japan, where the book has been very popular.Īccording to the Asahi Newspaper, sales of the Chinese edition have overtaken sales of the original Japanese edition, with sales of more than 10 million at pixel time. It was originally published as a series of short stories by Kodansha in its magazine Young Women in 1979. Open Access This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license ( ).Japan’s all time bestselling novel is Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, written by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. One such noble values is the educational value in the novel that summarises the realities of everyday lives of Japanese people. Recommendation: The autobiographical novel Madogiwa No Totto-chan (Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window) can be utilised as a medium of character education in Indonesian schools for this Japanese novel highlight educational values that encompasses several noble values. Educational values found are values related to the religious education values moral education values social education values and artistic values. The purpose is to make children confident responsible to love one another and help each other and to introduce them to nature as nature is source of knowledge. An educator should be cheerful and not be angry to his students because educating children is not with anger but with advice praise and trust. Educational values in this novel can be used as learning examples in schools to help children who have problems (with special needs). A school principal or a teacher should be a leader who dares to act in accordance with their beliefs and principles of life. The messages found are: A mother must be wise in educating and nurturing children with special needs.

Conclusion of research findings: The main theme of this novel is Education education which allows students to be creative while the sub-theme is that education must be adapted to the child's personality development. This study is a library research that uses a qualitative approach with content analysis. This study aims to gain a deep understanding of educational values in the novel Madogiwa No Totto-chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi with a qualitative approach that includes educational values in terms of the structure of the novel.