The main contents of the Basic Law of Education are as follows: it is determined that education must aim at cultivating personality, cultivating peaceful citizens and builders of society; All citizens receive nine-year compulsory education; Respect academic freedom and cultivate national rationality; Religious education is prohibited in public schools; Equal educational opportunities and coeducation; Respect teachers and improve their status. The school education law is the embodiment of the basic laws of education. Its main contents are: abolishing centralized system and implementing decentralized system; Adopt 6-3-3-4 monorail academic system to extend the period of compulsory education; High school aims to implement general education and special education; Unify the original higher education institutions into a single type of university.

The promulgation of the Basic Law on Education and the Law on School Education denied the wartime militaristic education policy and pointed out the development direction of Japanese education after the war.

Second, since 1970s, Japan has carried out many educational reforms.

197 1 year, Japan's central education review Committee put forward a consultation report on "basic measures for comprehensive expansion and rectification of school education in the future", mainly involving the reform of primary and secondary education and higher education. In primary and secondary education, Japan has put forward three basic goals of attaching importance to the development of human personality and the responsibility of the state and educators, and 10 specific measures to achieve these goals. In terms of higher education, the report puts forward five requirements and 12 specific measures. In the 1970s, Japan also promulgated the Standards for Improving the Teaching Plan for Primary and Secondary Schools, the Syllabus for Primary and Junior High Schools and the Syllabus for Senior High Schools.

Thirdly, after 1980s, the basic trend of Japanese education reform continued the practice of 1970s, but it was more in-depth and concrete.

1984, Japan established the "Provisional Education Review Council"; 1987, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology established the "Education Reform Promotion Headquarters", which became the leading institution to promote Japanese education reform in the 1980s. The consulting report of "Provisional Education Review Committee" 1987 is the most authoritative, and it puts forward that education reform should attach importance to the principles of individualization, internationalization, informationization and transition to lifelong education system. The "Provisional Education Review Conference" also put forward specific reform suggestions, including improving the lifelong education system; Reform the primary and secondary education system, emphasizing the reform of the academic system according to the viewpoint of flexibility, diversity and flexibility; Strengthen moral education and physical education; Promote higher education and teacher training.