Japan's educational administration refers to the Ministry of Education, which is the highest educational administrative institution established since the Meiji Restoration. Until the end of World War II, Japan's education administration was extremely centralized, and after the war, the local decentralization system was implemented on the basis of the report of American education envoys from 65438 to 0946. After 1952, centralization was further strengthened and decentralization was weakened.
(1) Central Education Administration. The Ministry of Education undertakes the task of revitalizing and popularizing school education, social education and academic culture, and is responsible for comprehensively completing the above matters and the state's religious administrative affairs.
Its main functions and powers are to formulate relevant educational laws and regulations, formulate educational budget plans, manage and implement the payment of educational subsidies from the state treasury, investigate and study related matters of education, academic and cultural development, examine and approve textbooks, and examine and approve the establishment of universities and institutions of higher learning.
(2) Local education administrative departments. The Education Committee is the central organ in charge of local education management, including prefectural education committees and township education committees. The Board of Education has an education director in charge of all educational affairs and a bureau in charge of daily affairs.
Authority of the Education Committee: Except universities, private schools and education finance, all other educational administrative affairs are managed by the Education Committee. Such as school setting, property management, personnel appointment and dismissal, curriculum setting, school building equipment maintenance, staff education, etc.