Attendance Rates
While attendance rates stumbled in the early Meiji era, they were approaching 100 percent by the end of the Meiji era, partly as a result of the nationalistic reforms instituted by the Meiji government.[1]
[1] McClain, Japan, 264.
[1] McClain, Japan, 264.
Primary School Attendance Rates During the Meiji Period, 1873-1905
Year |
Boys |
Girls |
Average |
1873 |
39.9 |
15.14 |
28.13 |
1875 |
50.49 |
18.58 |
35.19 |
1880 |
58.72 |
21.91 |
41.06 |
1885 |
65.8 |
32.07 |
49.62 |
1890 |
65.14 |
31.13 |
48.93 |
1895 |
76.65 |
43.87 |
61.24 |
1900 |
90.35 |
71.73 |
81.48 |
1905 |
97.72 |
93.34 |
95.62 |
Citation: From Japan's Growth and Education (Tokyo: Ministry of Education, 1965), 180. Cited in Michio Nagai, Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture, ed. Donald Shively (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971), Journal Storage edition, 56, and Brian Platt, Educational Reform in Japan (19th c.), Children and Youth in History, George Mason University, http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/case-studies/125?section=primarysources&source=132