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Ashikaga School
The Ashikaga School (足利学校) was a Confucian academy in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, regarded as the oldest surviving school in the country and closed in 1872.
Education in Japan
Education in Japan (日本の教育) is MEXT-administered schooling in a 6-3-3-4 structure with free compulsory education ages 6-15, dating to the 1872 Gakusei, and top-tier PISA performance alongside exam pressure and teacher workload issues.
Kōdōkan (Mito)
The Kōdōkan (弘道館) was the domain school of the Mito Domain in Japan, founded by Tokugawa Nariaki and opened in 1841 as the largest domain school in the country.
Meirinkan
Meirinkan (明倫館) was the domain school of the Chōshū domain in Hagi, Japan, founded in 1718 and rebuilt in 1849 as one of the country's largest.
Shizutani School
Shizutani School (Shizutani Gakkō) is a school for commoners founded in 1670 at Bizen, Okayama, by Ikeda Mitsumasa, often called Japan's first public school for common people.
Youth Schools
Youth Schools (青年学校, seinen gakkō) were Japanese part-time schools for working youth, combining vocational and general education with military drill, established in 1935 and abolished in 1947.