Abstract—Education for their children is one of the greatest
concerns today among overseas Japanese residents, and so it
was for overseas Japanese residents in the pre-Second World
War period. Overseas Japanese educational institutions are
faced with various problems today, as they were in the pre-war
period. In 1926, the principals of the Japanese elementary
schools, who were scattered across the Northern Chinese
provinces, gathered in Beijing for the purpose of discussing
educational and management issues. This marked the
inauguration of the North China Elementary School Principals’
Conference, which took place irregularly in different locations
until the early 1940s. This article attempts to clarify what issues
the conference discussed and how it tried to cope with them for
the betterment of the education for Japanese children in a
strange land.
Index Terms—Japan, history of education, sino-japanese
relations.
Mizuno Norihito is with Akita International University, Akita-shi, Akita
010-1292 Japan (email: nmizuno@aiu.ac.jp).
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Cite:Mizuno Norihito, "The Search for Educational Betterment in a Foreign Land:
A Study of the North China Japanese Elementary School
Principals’ Conference," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 74-82, 2014.