Educational Law in Japan

In Japan the rule of law as a modern nation was begun by the Meiji Restoration, since then the educational legal system related has being transformed and developed in the influence of political, economic, and international environment peculiar to Japan. After World War II, under the occupation policy by the General Headquarters of the Allied Forces (mainly United States of America), new democratic policies were implemented. And after the restoration of independence from the General Headquarters, the centralized educational legislation was back. From the 1950s administrative bureaucrats had power to lead the development of educational legislation during the period of political stability. At the beginning of twenty-first century, administrative and financial reforms occurred designed to decentralization and deregulation of the central government, the policy was triggered by the first full-scale change of government by the Democratic Party. Since 2012, under the  administration led by the Liberal Democratic Part, legislation to respond to educational issues and to realize the conventions on education has been put in place.