| Description |
xvii, 286 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index. |
| Contents |
Assignment to Japan -- The Yamanashi military government team -- The team's task: demilitarization and education -- The first school inspections -- Other initial duties -- Democracy's pangs in the classroom -- Secondary, normal, and medical schools -- Yamanashi teachers' unions -- Teaching democracy to Japan's adults -- The conundrum of religious freedom -- Political interlude: surveillance of the April 1947 elections -- Inauguration of the educational structure -- Further reforms in teacher training -- Private schools and the school for the handicapped -- The school lunch program -- Expansion of the labor education program -- Expansion of adult education programs -- Additional religion and state problems -- Epilogue. |
| Subject |
Yamanashi-ken (Japan) -- History.
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Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
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| ISBN |
0295973633 (acid-free paper) |
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9780295973630 (acid-free paper) |
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