From left: Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture Machimura, Chief Cabinet Secretary Fukuda, Prime Minister Mori,
and Chairman Esaki at the meeting of the National Commission on Educational Reform (Official Residence of the Prime Minister, 22 December 2000) |
On 22 December 2000, the final report of the National Commission on Educational Reform, which had been established under the Prime Minister in March 2000, was submitted to Prime Minister Mori by its chair, Dr. Leo Esaki, Nobel Laureate in physics 1973. In the report, the National Commission put forward 17 proposals to change Japan's education.
To the Ordinary Session of the Diet in 2001, which will be characterized as the "Diet Session for Educational Reform", a package of educational reform-related bills will be submitted by the Mori Cabinet.
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