How do countries like Japan and China fund their public education? -

In the US, we use property taxes to fund school costs, How do other countries like Japan and China fund their school taxes?

In European countries and Japan, national governments provide most of the money for schools and just about all schools receive roughly similar funding. But in the United States the federal government funds less than 7% of elementary and secondary education. It is up to each state to figure out how to fund the rest - which is mostly through taxes.