The Archive · 1924

Teaching Homicide

According to some critics of Japan's educational system, the students thereby grow restless and radical ang talk of Karl Marx and Lenin, if ably as a reaction from the wiles' of Would-be Bernbardis and Hindenburgs.

'The youth of Japan are anxious to join hands youth of other lands, but, coi ly or unconsciously, the' sys education acts as a brake on this tendency.

The proposal to have compulsory: military training and education in all the educational institutions of the land is meeting with considerable opposition. Nevertheless, it seems clear that the War Office scheme will be adhered to. This is the price the civilian authorities must pay for the Army's consent to reduce the number of troops by four divisions. Mr. Yukio Ozaki, a well-known Japanese Liberal and at one time Minister of Justice, condemned the plan as "an attempt to teach youngsters the art of homicide and to glorify marder." To such- training and psychology, he sets down the murder of -defenceless Koreans and Chinese following the earthquake He predicts that militarization of the nation's youth will lead to more grave restlessness,

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