JAP. EDUCATION
REVISION OF SYSTEM PURGE OF TEXT BOOKS DEMOCRATIC TEACHINGS (11.30 a.m.) TOKIO, Oct. 23. Allied headquarters 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 textbooks, so that the material covering 85 per cent of elementary education was now fit for pupils to read. The Allied educators propose to inculcate the precepts of representative government, international peace, and the dignity of the individual, also such fundamental human rights as freedom of assembly, speech and religion. This will be done by books and the 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 schools declined from 49,000 to 39,000 from March, 1943, to last August. The Japanese estimate that 4059 Schools were destroyed by bombs.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21852, 24 October 1945, Page 5
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