Emergency Measures for Education during Wartime

...Furthermore, send-off ceremonies were held in various places, but after the second "departure" the following year, not even a send-off party was held. In October 1943, the Cabinet decided on emergency wartime measures regarding education, which included reducing the number of liberal arts higher education schools and converting them to science-related courses, and providing special provisions for graduation qualifications for students enlisting while still in school. In October 1944, the conscription age was lowered from 20 to 19, and the total number of student soldiers was estimated to have reached 130,000.

*Some of the terminology used in the "Emergency Wartime Measures for Education" is listed below.

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…このほか各地で壮行会が開かれたが，翌年の第2次〈出陣〉以降は壮行会さえ行われなかった。また43年10月，教育に関する戦時非常措置方策が閣議決定され，文科系高等教育諸学校の縮小と理科系への転換，在学入隊者の卒業資格の特例などが定められた。さらに44年10月には徴兵適齢が20歳から19歳に引き下げられ，学徒兵の総数は13万人に及んだと推定される。…

※「教育に関する戦時非常措置方策」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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