ABSTRACT
Should the right to an education include an education in human rights? This is the question debated by Japanese scholars in the early 19th and 20th centuries. The issue is again raised by the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration’s Article 26 stated, “Everyone has a right to education…. Education shall be directed to…the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.”1 Article 26 implied that the right to an education should involve instruction in human rights.
