Transformation of Christian Education in Japan-influence of foreign missionaries and religious orders

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This is a fundamental research on Christian education in Japan, especially, Catholic education, which grew under the influence of foreign missionaries and religious orders. The main materials and historical documents concerning of Catholic schools and religious orders connected with those schools in Japan were collected for further research, which has becoming more difficult to obtain with decrease of the members of religious orders. The relations of Catholic schools and religious orders were considered especially with attention of the relations of educational activities in those schools and spirituality or mission statement of religious orders. Also it became clear that change of formation of new successors of those schools with the drop of the numbers of religious orders influenced on educational activities and contents of those schools.