(3)The Educational and Cultural Policy Council

On July 9, 1921, the 1921 Education Council (Kyoiku Hyogikai) was established, as authorized in the 1921 Education Council Organization Order, and at the same time the Special Committee for Education came to an end according to this Order. The immediate task for the 1921 Education Council was to investigate details necessary for the implementation of the six-year plan mentioned above. Then following some deliberations in the Imperial Diet, on April 15, 1924, at the time of Education Minister Egi Kazuyuki (1853 -1932), was created the Educational and Cultural Policy Council (Bunsei Shingikai), as authorized in the Educational and Cultural Policy Council Organization Order promulgated on that day. (The 1921 Education Council was dissolved on April 18, 1924.) Article 1 of the Order stated: "The Educational and Cultural Policy Council shall be under the supervision of the Prime Minister and shall respond to his inquiries by conducting investigations and deliberations of important matters on educational and cultural policy (bunsei) such as the encouragement of the spirit of the people, the decision of educational policy, and so forth." In addition the Council was able to make independent recommendations on these matters to the Prime Minister. The Council was to be composed of a president, two vice-presidents and no more than fifty members. The Prime Minister was to take the office of the president and the Minister of Education was to assume one of the vice-presidencies. The members were appointed from the fields of business, politics, scholarship, teaching and various branches of the government. Additionally, provisional members might be added in cases where matters of a special nature had to be dealt with.

The Council continued deliberative activities from May, 1924, till January, 1935, taking up such matters as 1) the reform of the 1900 Elementary School Order for the extension of compulsory education period to eight years, 2) the state editing of standardized textbooks for middle level schools in order to improve the quality of education on that level, 3) the prolongation of the first track of the regular course of the normal schools and the establishment of a specialized course (senkoka) at these schools, 4) the attachment of military officers to middle and higher level schools, 5) the establishment of an order on kindergartens, 6) the improvement of the higher elementary school system, 7) the institution of the youth training center system, 8) the reform of the University Order, 9) the reform of the normal school education system, 10) the reform of the 1920 Academic Degree Order, 11) the organization of the first and the second courses in the upper classes of middle schools, 12) the improvement of normal school education, 13) the founding of Osaka Imperial University, and 14) the realization of youth schools in order to integrate youth training centers and vocational supplementary schools. On December 29, 1935, the Educational and Cultural Policy Council was dissolved shortly after the establishment on May 11, 1935, of a new deliberative body within the Cabinet.

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