ABSTRACT
The main arena of Oikawa's activities, Akashi Women's Normal School, was founded in 1903 to disseminate professional understanding of girls' education and increase the number of female teachers in the prefecture, and its attached elementary school was established the following year. This chapter outlines how the work of Heiji Oikawa and Akashi Fusho has been evaluated in Japanese research. It examines Oikawa's achievements, dividing them for convenience into two phases: achievements preceding his world educational tour, and those afterwards. The chapter explores the role that Oikawa played in education against the backdrop of Japan's unique nation-controlled education system of the 1900s to 1940s. It discusses how the ideas and efforts of Akashi Fusho and Oikawa continue to have a certain impact even beyond the post-World War period into today. Oikawa resigned his post at Akashi Fusho and in April 1936 became the first president of the Sendai Educational Research Institute.
