EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM & PRACTICE IN JAPAN

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	In June 2004, the Law on the Organization and Operation of Local Educational Administration was revised, which has enabled setting up School Administrative Council in each school and allowed guardians and local community residents to participate in school management with a certain authority. This community school system, in which local community, guardians, a board of education, and a principal share the authority and responsibility of school management, aims to realize creating school opened to and supported by the community.