ABSTRACT
Education was in vogue in Japan when that country was isolated from the rest of the world. The strong points of the youth of Japan in the matter of education are their great powers of concentration and their indomitable application to study and perseverance. Japan's contact with Europe and America has vastly improved the educational system. Soon after the Revolution of 1868 a Board of Education was instituted in Japan, and the whole educational system of the country, because one had existed under the rule of a Tycoon, was taken in hand and reorganised. Three years later a separate Department of Education was formed at a time almost synonymous with the setting up of School Boards in England. The Education Department despatched a number of specially selected Japanese to various European countries and to the United States of America to inquire into and report upon the system of education in existence and its suitability for adaptation or adoption in Japan.
