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In 1972 the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture(Monbusho) marked the one hundredth anniversary of the proclamation of Education System Order (Gakusei) with its publication of Gakusei Hyakunenshi (One Hundred Years of Japanese Education).

The present work is an English edition of the Gakusei Hyakunenshi here published in its abridged and recompiled form under the title of Japan's Modern Educational System.

We sincerely hope that this English publication will prove useful to those foreign readers interested in Japanese education in general as well as to those who are studying the historical aspects of educational development in modern Japan.

March,1980 Ministry of Education, Science and Culture