school curriculum is the basics, plus lessons from real world business and community leaders to show kids where the basics will take them. revolutionary, for a japanese school system known for rigidity and formality. but shirota is not your average principal. he's not even a trained educator. his lack of experience in the setting is what led the setting to recruit him. >> principals are people who became teachers right after graduating from college, he says. that limits any outside the box thinking, he explains. he runs his school more like a corporation. students, his workers, and he keeps track of them. >> as you know, all the names of all the students. >> only name but also in the -- >> you know their test scores and their names? >> every single one?