The Imperial Rescript on Education has recently drawn public attention when an Osaka kindergarten was found to have been making kids there memorize it. Video footage posted online showed that ...

The Imperial Rescript on Education, which was issued by Emperor Meiji in 1890, was rejected in postwar Japan. Nevertheless, moves to cling to it and d ...

The Imperial Rescript on Education has attracted attention in recent years as it was chanted by small children at a kindergarten managed by the Moritomo Gakuen school operator, which has been at ...

Along with the Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors issued by Emperor Meiji in 1882 as the official code of ethics for military personnel, the rescript on education thus functioned as an ...

The historical context of the 1890 rescript, Tsujita said, was that it was written in response to Japan's period of rapid modernization in the 19th century. The rescript was later amended and ...

Students recite the Imperial Rescript on Education and Confucian Analects in front of Japan's national flag, a picture of Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, and a hanging scroll of ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters the Imperial Rescript on Education should be allowed as teaching material if it is used in line with the constitution and the education law ...

Providing a Cabinet-approved formal response to a question posed by an opposition lawmaker, the Abe administration says to the effect that it is permissible to use the Imperial Rescript on ...

The Imperial Rescript on Education, a short founding document of modern Japanese nationalism first issued to Japan's schools by the Education Ministry in 1890 and banned from official use in 1948 ...

Kyoiku Chokugo, or the Imperial Rescript on Education, was eliminated and revoked by the Diet in June 1948 as being incompatible with the basic principle of the Japanese Constitution.