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CHAPTER 1 EDUATIONAL POPULATION AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
2 Compulsory Education
(2) State at the Prefectural Level


Transition in the total enrollment in elementary and lower secondary schools (hereafter to be called "enrollment in compulsory education schools") at the prefectural level is summarized below.

The enrollment in compulsory education schools across the nation (excluding Okinawa Prefecture) in 1975 totaled 14,930,000 persons, down 5.1% (800,000 persons) from 15,730,000 in 1965, or ten years before. At the prefectural level, however, the enrollment in compulsory education schools increased in some prefectures while declining in other prefectures during this period, reflective particularly of the change in the nation's industrial structure in the second half of the l960s and its resultant concentration of population in urban areas.

Chart 1-6 shows the transition in the number and percentage of increase or decrease of enrollment in compulsory education schools during 1965-75 in each prefecture.

Chart 1-6. Transition in Compulsory Education Enrol1ment, Classified by Prefecture

According to this chart, the enrollment in compulsory education schools in the six prefectures of Osaka, Kanagawa, Saitama, Tokyo, Aichi and Chiba grew by 150,000 to 300,000 persons (10 to 45%) each during 1965-75. An increase to a lesser degree during the same period is recorded in the three prefectures of Hyogo, Kyoto and Nara. Large cities are located in all of these nine prefectures and their peripheral prefectures are faced with problems of educational administration emanating from population growth, such as the need to increase or expand schools.

On the other hand, a sharp decrease of more than 100,000 enro1lments each in compulsory education schools was shown during the same period in Kagoshima, Fukushima, Niigata, Kumamoto, Fukuoka and Nagasaki Prefectures. In terms of rate of decline, more than a 30% decline was registered in Kagoshima, Akita, Shimane, Yamagata, Saga, Kumamoto, Miyazaki and Tokushima Prefectures.


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