CHAPTER 1 EDUATIONAL POPULATION AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
2 Compulsory Education
In Japan, compulsory education is provided in elementtary and
lower secondary schools and in the elementary and lower secondary departments
of schools for the blind, schools for the deaf, and schools for the otherwise
handicapped. Compulsory education in the schools for the blind, schools for the
deaf and schools for the otherwise handicapped is to be dealt with later in section
5, " Special Education." Elaboration is to be made here on the number of pupils
and graduates of elementary and lower secondary schools.