ABSTRACT
The Japanese take justifiable pride in the fact that they have been able to incorporate modern technology into their economic system without destroying long-cherished traditions. Moral education as a compulsory subject in pre-war Japanese schools had as its aims clarification of the fundamental concepts of the national political and imperial systems and respect for hierarchical human relationships particularly between the Emperor and his people. Japan's education system was democratised. The principles of its post-war reform were outlined in a report prepared by 27 educationists under the leadership of Dr. George D. Stoddard, who visited Japan as members of a United States Education Mission in March 1946. The Fundamental Law of Education passed in March 1947 stressed rights rather than duties and made the full developmentof personality and independence of spirit the goals of the new education.
