著者

浪本 勝年

出版者

立正大学心理学研究所

雑誌

立正大学心理学研究所紀要 The journal of the Institute of Psycology, Rissho University (ISSN:13482777)

巻号頁・発行日

no.12, pp.17-30, 2014

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In 2009 The Democratic Party of Japan( DPJ) led by HATOYAMA Yukio, leader of the party, tookoffice after the general election of The Lower House in Japan. This meant a historic change of the centralgovernment in Japan, because over these five decades The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan(LDP) had been in office. In the field of education policy DPJ changed some of the former policy. For example families withchildren under 15 became to get child allowance. The first law provided 13,000 yen a month per childuntil graduation from junior high school. The second law effectively eliminates tuition fees at publichigh schools and provides tuition aid to students attending private high schools. Concerning this policy DPJ Noda administration got cancellation of the reservation of the clause offree education policy of International Covenants on Human Rights( 1966) on 24 September 2012. Thismeant also very significant change in education policy. As a rule of thumb, however, DPJ rapidly lost the support by the people due to the bad handling ofthe government, which lead to the change of government. Thus LDP again got office in 2012. LDP Abeadministration has started to enforce the reactionary policy especially in the fields of local educationadministration and school textbook authorization system. Such policy would undoubtedly have a negativeeffect on Japanese education.