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PART Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture

Now that the educational influences of the family and the community have been weakened due to urbanization, the increase of nuclear families and other trends, there is a great need for providing young people, at their respective developmental levels, with opportunities for rich life experiences. For example increased direct contact with nature training themselves through positive competition with their friends, learning about their own community, taking part in voluntary community service activities, and so forth. It is also an important task to enrich out-of-school activities of youths, in connection with the introduction of a five-day school week. In light of these circumstances, the Ministry is promoting necessary research and investigation into relevant issues and entrusting local public bodies with the investigation of some of the issues.

Recently, the problem of graphic descriptions of sex and violence in some comic magazines for boys and girls has been addressed, and government ministries and agencies are cooperating with one another in tackling this problem. The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture has been taking measures in this regard, including the promotion of environmental purification activities, requests to local boards of education and youth education organizations to effectively cope with this problem, and so on.