PART Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 2 Promotion of Lifelong Learning
3 Development of Infrastructures for Lifelong Learning
(2) Lifelong Learning Festivals
Since 1989, the Ministry has held an annual nation-wide lifelong
learning festival with the aim of providing a large number of people with an
opportunity to exchange experiences related to a general range of lifelong learning
activities. The festival is intended to heighten public awareness of lifelong
learning and to encourage people to engage in lifelong learning activities. From
October 31 through November 4, 1992, the fourth festival entitled "Manabipia
(Learning Fair) '92 in Miyagi" was held in Miyagi Prefecture with the general
theme of "New Winds - Lifelong Learning" and with the local theme of "Learning,
Let's Travel to Unknown Lands."