The Evolution of the Concept of ‘Postwar Education'

The two definitions generally used to define the postwar in Japan – that which limits the period to the years 1945–1955, and that which brings it up to the present – are both functioning in relation to Japanese education and the history of Japanese education. Even if they lack the same value, they nevertheless, through mutual confrontation, enable us to grasp the real nature of what has been and still is represented as sengo kyōiku (postwar education).