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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has adopted a statement that the government approves the use of the 1890 Imperial Rescript on Education as a teaching material at schools.

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

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 ...

HIROSHIMA--Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui cited a part of the prewar Imperial Rescript on Education stressing loyalty to the emperor in training materials for new city employees, The Asahi Shimbun ...