| The nation-wide spread of education following the Meiji Restoration has come to be studied and appreciated not only as a key to the modernization of Japan, but also as an outstanding example of effective educational effort from which much can be learned by nationbuilders elsewhere.
Comprehensively documented here for the first time are the details of this prodigious educational program from 1870 to about 1892, when the young Government decided to make schooling a national responsibility. The perfection of the educational structure made it possible to measure what had been accomplished. Objectives, organization, theories, methods, regulations, finances and results are set forth in documents, reports, histories and reminiscences covering both the nation as a whole and each prefecture are included.
To make possible this microfilm edition, which greatly surpasses all previous compilations of such materials, approximately 300 volumes, many of them unique and generally inaccessible, were sought out in widely scattered libraries, including the Cabinet Library and the official libraries of the prefectural governments. |
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