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

Youth education is expected to offer opportunities to experience nature, train themselves among peers, understand one's homeland, engage in voluntary activities and lead a rich life with various experiences. These opportunities shall be in response to the changing social environment surrounding the youth in nuclear families and urbanization, and to be in tune with the developmental stage of the youth concerned.

The latest developments among group activities of the youth include field activities and international exchange activities. Also, as learning activities of the youth in the community, classes and lectures for the youth, activities to inherit local culture and to protect nature, and volunteer activities organized by local governments are becoming popular. The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture provides subsidies for these activities. In addition, the Ministry promotes a youth program for learning homeland in which the youth study their homeland comprehensively and then to engage in practical activities. and a frontier adventure program in which the youth experience self-supporting survival in nature for a long period of time.

The Ministry is promoting the improvement of the National Youth Centers and the National Children's Nature Centers which offer opportunities of residential group training in nature, and the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center. It also promotes the improvement of public youth education facilities.