Imperial Rescript on Education - Kyouikuchokugohosei

…In Japan, the system began with the "school system" of 1872 (Meiji 5), and its framework was established in the 1890s with the Constitution of the Empire of Japan and the Imperial Rescript on Education as its main pillars. The educational legal system before World War II, also known as the "Imperial Rescript on Education Legal System," had a unique character in that, except for the area of ​​educational finance, most of it was composed of imperial decrees (emperor's orders) and administrative legislation based on them. In this system, school education itself was considered to be the lowest level of administration in the imperial state, and educational laws were merely "educational administration laws" as a part of administrative law. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "Imperial Rescript on Education Legal System" are listed below.

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…日本の場合は，1872年(明治5)の〈学制〉に端を発し，1890年代に大日本帝国憲法と教育勅語を主柱としてその骨格が確立された。〈教育勅語法制〉ともいわれる第2次大戦前の教育法制は，教育財政の分野を除いてそのほとんどが勅令(天皇の命令)とそれにもとづく行政立法によって構成されるという特異な性格をもっていた。そこでは学校教育そのものが天皇制国家の末端行政であるとされ，教育法規は行政法の一部分としての〈教育行政法〉にすぎなかった。…

※「教育勅語法制」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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