INTRODUCTION. GENERAL SURVEY OF THE SCALE OF SCHOOL EDUCATION
School education in Japan has demonstrated a remarkable progress
in the last century and played an important role in the enhancement of the people's
resources and abilities and in national and social development. And at present,
with marked expansion made in its quantitative scale, Japan's educational standards
have, in addition, come to be ranked high internationally in terms of the degree
to which education has been popularized.
While the present state and future problems of school education
are o be dealt with in subsequent chapters from various viewpoints, a general
survey is to be made herewith on the scale of personnel, material and financial
resources, in which school education of all levels - from the level of kindergartens
to universities and colleges - is undertaken.
