1. Clarifying loyalty and filial piety: 1800-1850s -- 2. Knowledge from throughout the world: the reforms of the 1870s -- 3. Assimilating the elements: 1879-1905 -- 4. To liberate education from bureaucratic control: 1905-1931 -- 5. Mobilizing the spirit of the nation: 1931-1945 -- 6. Stamping out the bad, stamping in the new: 1945-1950 -- 7. Warfare waged between the entrenched: 1950-1969 -- 8. The challenge of a new era: 1970-1989 -- 9. Our national identity as Japanese: post-Showa Japan.
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