ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book evaluates the extent of the foreign influences on Japanese scholars, educators and administrators, and analyses relevant historical facts. Historians' roles are to interpret history based on primary sources, and to promote the historical awareness of educationists and other readers, to enhance an intelligent understanding of change in cultural and political contexts. The book shows how education can provide happiness and how schools can nurture it in children, parents and teachers, which Nel Noddings has identified as a major concern for democratic societies throughout the world. To contribute to a peaceful world and to a sustainable society, the contributors of the book aspire to sustain a dialogue based on scrupulous and sensitive research in the history of education in different countries, cultures and economies.
