Although education in Japan had been promoted as a measure to enrich and strengthen a country on the basis of Imperial Prescript on Education since the Meiji period, it was aimed at drastic democratization after World War II under the educational reform policies of the General Headquarters (GHQ).
明治以後、富国強兵策に基づき「教育勅語」を規範として進められた日本の教育は、第二次世界大戦後、連合国軍最高司令官総司令部(GHQ)の教育改革政策のもとで、「教育基本法」により抜本的な民主化をめざした。