JAPANESE EDUCATION SINCE 1945: A DOCUMENTARY STUDY

This volume is a study of postwar Japanese education and includes major educational documents that shed new light on this important period and provide a guide to understanding the development of Japanese educational policy. Some of the documents are taken from records of the American occupation forces, while others are original translations from Japanese sources. Taken together, they provide documentary evidence of the development of Japanese education from a devastated system in 1945 to world class status today. While the collection is not intended to be exhaustive, it provides basic materials that are essential for understanding the development of the postwar Japanese education enterprise. Not only are the documents chosen for inclusion invaluable for research and teaching, they are suggestive of fruitful topics for further research.