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The contemporary Japanese education system is a product of historical reforms dating back to the Meiji period, which established modern educational institutions and systems. [9] This early start of modernisation enabled Japan to provide education at all levels in the native language , [10] rather than using the languages of powerful countries ...
"Japanese Childhood, Modern Childhood: The Nation-State, the School, and 19th-Century Globalization", Journal of Social History (2005) 38#4, pp 965–985 online; Saito, Hiro. "Cosmopolitan Nation-Building: The Institutional Contradiction and Politics of Postwar Japanese Education", Social Science Japan Journal, Summer 2011, Vol. 14 Issue 2, pp ...
The University of Tokyo was founded as the nation's first university in 1877 by merging Edo-period institutions for higher education.. The modern Japanese higher education system was adapted from a number of methods and ideas inspired from Western education systems that were integrated with their traditional Shinto, Buddhist, and Confucianist pedagogical philosophies that served as the system ...
A Review of Higher Education Reform in Modern Japan. Paul Doyon. Higher Education, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Jun., 2001), pp. 443–470. Japan's Top 30 Universities. William Currie. International Higher Education, Winter 2002 ; Engineering Tasks for the New Century: Japanese and U.S. Perspectives (1999) Office of International Affairs
In 1886, the modern elementary school system started as compulsory education. Until 1947, only elementary schools were compulsory. Immediately before and during World War II, state education was used as a propaganda tool by the Japanese fascist government. Today, virtually all elementary education takes place in public schools.
Viscount Mori Arinori (森 有礼) (August 23, 1847 – February 12, 1889) was a Meiji period Japanese statesman, diplomat, and founder of Japan's modern educational system. Mori Arinori served as the first Minister of Education in the first Ito Cabinet of Japan, playing a key role in establishing the educational system during the Empire of Japan.
Social education (shakaikyôiku 社会教育) is the Japanese word for nondegree-oriented education. Modern Japan is unquestionably a society that values education highly ( see Education in Japan ). Diverse institutions, such as the miscellaneous schools, provide social education services.
Ministry of Education of Japan, circa 1890. Education in the Empire of Japan was a high priority for its government, as the leadership of the early Meiji government realized the need for universal public education in its drive to modernize the nation.