The peace function of the Ministry of Education

教育史研究表明，明治维新后我国教育制度的构建，是以培养大日本帝国宪法下的“臣民”为目标的。从20世纪30年代后半期开始，“主体”的性质发生了变化。当个人主义、自由主义和民主主义被斥为西方国家的舶来品时，“国泰民潮”和日本人的思想却弥漫在所有的领土上。其结果是，“臣民”被驱往作为“皇国”的“学训”。此外，他们应该在韩国，台湾，“满洲国”，中国等地长大。教学研究局，开始作为一个“中央机构，以革新教学研究”，下滑和冲突的国家精神文化实验室。他们以发展“兴亚教育”为出路，但仅限于在中国北方沦陷区编写教科书等，但当“训练”成为完成全面战争秩序的首要目标时，教育教学局的意义就增加了。特别是在开启对美、英敌对后，他们有意加强对学生的思想引导和“国民思想引导”，推动完成“帝国主义”的培养教育。与此同时，国家精神文化实验室虽在30年代后半期试图以“思想国防”扩张，在四十年代跟教学研究局的摩擦中变得软弱。

It has been clarified by the studies on history of education that our nation had aimed for upbringing " the subjects" under Great Japanese Imperial Constitution by the construction of the education system after Meiji Restoration. The quality of "the subjects" changed from the latter half of 1930's. While the individualism, the liberalism and the democracy were denounced as imports from Western countries, "Kokutaimeicho" and Japanese mind pervaded all territories. As a result, "the subjects" were driven to "study training" as "imperial nation". Furthermore, they should be brought up in Korea, Taiwan, "Manchurian country", China, etc.Teaching Study Bureau, which started as a "central organization to renovate teaching study", slumped and conflicted with the National Spiritual Culture Laboratory. They aimed to develop "rising Asia education" to find a way out, but it was restricted to compiling textbook at the occupied territory in the northern part of China, and so on.However, when "training" became the primary aim to accomplish total war order, the significance of the Education Teaching Bureau increased. Especially after opening the hostilities toward the United States of America and England, they intended to enforce the guidance of the students' thoughts and "the guidance of the national thoughts", pushed forward to complete the training education of "imperial nation".Meanwhile, though the National Spiritual Culture Laboratory tried to expand by "national defense with thoughts" in the latter half of the '30 s, they became weak in the friction with the Teaching Study Bureau in the '40 s.