School age - Gakusai

Japanese: 学歳 - がくさい
School age - Gakusai

...In today's Japanese schools, most elementary, middle and high schools use a trimester system, while most universities use a two-term system. Kaisei School (one of the predecessors of the University of Tokyo), a higher education institution, was the first to define the period from September to July of the following year as the "gakusai" (corresponding to today's school year) in 1873. This was because they employed foreign teachers and adopted a Western-style school system. For the next 50 years, universities, old-system high schools and other institutions continued to use the September school year starting system.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "school age" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…今日の日本の学校の場合,小・中・高等学校では3学期制,大学は2学期制を採用しているところが大部分である。 高等教育機関の一つであった開成学校(東京大学の前身の一つ)は,1873年に9月より翌年7月までを,はじめて〈学歳〉(今日の学年に相当)と定めたが,これは,外国人教師をかかえ,欧米風の学校制度を採用したからであった。以後約50年間にわたって,大学,旧制高校などで9月学年始期制が踏襲された。…

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