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Hammering Down the Educational Nail: Abe Revises the Fundamental law of Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill  and
Adam Lebowitz
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True to his word, Abe Shinzo is radically overhauling Japan's education system, the single most important item accompanying his attempt to revise the Constitution. In his basic policy speech to the Diet in 2006, the prime minister vowed to rewrite the Fundamental Law of Education, rebuild education and “nurture people who value their families, their communities, and their country.” That makes his reform agenda the most ambitious since 1947, when the education law, written under US occupation, swept away the fascist-tinged classroom policies of the Imperial era.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 7 , July 2007 , e8
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