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    "ocrText": "have been censored and extreme nationalist and militarist passages\nNow, in defeat, educators are confronted with problems and\nremoved. Special attention is being given to normal schools and\ndifficulties which might daunt minds more fearless and enlightened\ncolleges which train teachers.\nthan that of the average Japanese. To return to Mr. Fleisher's\nA number of outstanding American educators are already in\nfigure of speech, a new \"negative\" for national education must be\nTokyo, and will be joined by others. They will cooperate with a\nproduced. The direction of the entire system must swing from\ncorresponding council of Japanese educators of known progres-\nnationalism, totalitarianism, and war to international coopera-\nsive views in planning a long-range program for liberalizing the\ntion, democracy, and peace. Teachers must be reindoctrinated\neducational system.\nand textbooks rewritten in line with these objectives.\nThat some Japanese students welcome, and even demand re-\nThe occupation authorities have wisely not attempted reforms\nforms is shown by the strike of pupils at the Ueno girls' high\nso sudden and drastic as to run far ahead of the people's capacity\nschool and the Mito boys' high school in Tokyo, in October 1945,\nto accept and absorb new ideas. In education, as in most other\nin protest against the faculties' failure to discard the militarist\nphases of the occupation, an existing agency of the Japanese\ncurriculum. Naturally, these changes are not being taken on faith\ngovernment-in this instance the Ministry of Education-is being\nby the Allied Command. Inspectors from the information and\nused to carry out Allied policy. Our plan represents two years of\neducation section are making scheduled \"spot checks\" to deter-\nwork on the part of military government personnel who had\nmine if directives are being obeyed.\nlived and studied in Japan.\nThis program of educational reform is being carried out under\nCHRISTIAN EDUCATION\nthe supervision of General MacArthur's information and educa-\nBefore war criminal Sadao Araki extinguished the last embers of\ntion section, headed by Brigadier General Kenneth R. Dyke.\nfree education in Japan, Christian schools and colleges, many of\nOrders issued by Allied Headquarters on October 22 and 31, 1945,\nthem for girls, gave thousands of Japanese young people an op-\noutlined specific steps to be taken in connection with teaching\nportunity to escape the worst of the militarist training designed\npersonnel, textbooks, and the abolition of all military training,\nby the Ministry of Education. In a wartime purge of Christian\ndrills, and militaristic sports from the schools. Nearly half a mil-\nchurches and schools all Catholic institutions were forced into one\nlion teachers in about forty thousand schools are being investi-\norganization under government control, all Episcopalian into\ngated and all those of known militarist tendencies are being\nanother, and all remaining Protestant bodies into a third. Chris-\neliminated. No demobilized soldiers are being appointed to educa-\ntian religious instruction was largely eliminated, although it\ntional positions. The production of new textbooks, a vast enter-\nshould be recognized that the fate of the individual institution\nprise, cannot be accomplished in a few months. General Dyke's\ndepended to some degree on the character of its Japanese admin-\nstaff is now working on a long list of needed new books, one of\nistrators. One of the worst examples was St. Paul's University in\nthe most important of which is a history of Japan without the\nTokyo, an Episcopalian college, whose officials were dismissed\nmyths that have been taught as fact to the nation's youth. In the\nby General MacArthur in October 1945. At the same time he\ninterim, most of the textbooks and teachers' manuals now in use\n69\n68"
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