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PART Issues and Developments of Policies in Education, Science and Culture

In order to promote lifelong learning, the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture created the Life-long Learning Bureau in July 1988 by reorganizing and expanding the then Social Education Bureau. It has also been encouraging and assisting prefectures and municipalities to establish agencies for coordinating lifelong learning programs. It is promoting, in addition, model municipalities for lifelong learning.

In view of the heavy concentration of programs of education, culture and sports in the metroplitan areas, the Ministry is promoting programs to develop priority local areas for lifelong learning activities.

The Ministry also started lifelong learning festivals in 1989, aiming to stimulate the individual's motivation for lifelong learning and to encourage participation in learning activities. These festivals will be offered nation-wide as an occasion to practice lifelong learning, and the first of these was held in Chiba in November 1989.It was titled "Manabipia '89 [Learning fair '89] " with a general theme of "New wind, lifelong learningm, " and with a local theme of "wish to meet, a new self".