NEW JAPAN

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 October 1945, Page 5

NEW JAPAN

EDUCATION PLANS TOKIO, October 23. Allied Headquarters in Tokio, has given the Japanese Government a comprehensive policy for liberalising the school system. The chief of the Information and Education Section (Colonel K. Dyke) said Japan had already abolished military instruction, as ordered. In the meantime, Allied education officers, aided by the Japanese Education Department, had removed militaristic and nationalistic propaganda from 149 text books, so that material covering 85 per cent, of elementary education was now fit for pupils to read. The Allied educators propose .to inculcate precepts of representative government, international peace, the dignity of the individual, and also such "fundamental humin rights as freedom of assembly, speech, and religion. This will be done by books and by radio, which the Japanese use extensively in schools. The number of pupils is estimated at 10,000,000 boys and 8,000,000 girls. The number of schools declined from 49,000 to 39,000 between March, 1943, and last August. The Japanese estimate that 4059 schools were destroyed by bombs.

JAPS IN LUZON VALLEY (Rec. 12.30 p.m.) MANILA, Oct. 23. A Filipino Congressman, Leion Cabarroguis, reported that 15,000 Japanese soldiers are still roaming the mountains bordering the Eastern Cagayan Valley of Luzon. The Japanese are willing to surrender to the Americans, but not to the Filipmos. They live by raiding farms for food. JAP. CONSERVATIVES (Rec. 12.30 p.m.:) TOKIO, Oct. 23. A committee of 183 Diet members who will probably form a new Conservative Party, called for absolute unqualified defence of the Emperor system, and determined, to light against Communist Liberalism.