It is important to undertake initiatives relating to school safety, food education, school lunches, and school health in order to raise children with healthy minds and bodies.

 Regarding school safety, MEXT is strengthening its cooperation with homes and local communities to make schools a safe place for children and continuously maintain children’s safety, in light of serious problems in recent years of accidents and incidents occurring at schools or en route to schools.

 In light of disordered dietary lifestyles and health issues affecting children’s mental and physical states, MEXT is promoting food-related instruction in schools led by nutrition teachers （i.e. food education）. In addition, it is promoting all kinds of responses to problems revolving around children’s health, including instruction and health education about such matters as smoking and drinking, drug abuse, sex, and allergy diseases.