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National flag at school


A mast and gyms	Poles of Kantei

I lost a driving way to a high school once. My son told me to find a national flag. Certainly public schools put up the Japanese national flag high. I do not when they began to put up high. A photo shows that a shool put up it high and do gyms. The pole was a mast of the glorious battleship Mikasa of the Japan Sea Battle. Its photo might be taken after 1923, because the Mikasa was out of duty list in 1923. Most of shools have a pole on a top of its building. It has been usual that elementary schools display thousand nations flags in gyms.
Mikasa

However, the Kantei of Japan shows it low, and lower than the White House. And commons of Japan do not show our national flag, though we showed it on a natioanl holiday in 60s to 70s. While schools have been eager to build higher flag-towers for education now.
the White House

Education in an easy way
It reminds me of a holy facility in shools all over Japan. The ministry of education had tried to control mind of boys since Meiji era. At last IJN and IJA beaucrats and Education Ministry could bring up soldiers for suicide attacks. Teachers of Japan have liked uniform learning and training for a long time. It seems that this is an easier way for them to control boys in school. Teachers had better learn Fukuzawa's and Katsu's thought. Some teachers praised Great Leap Forward in China and Marxism when I was in high school. As a result, very few radical students appeared. And some of them became terrorists rather than revolutionalists. To teach was to propanga a dogma in Japan. I suppose Japanese teachers do respect authority in all times even now. Or we should change ourselves, should not we? Japanese people are uniform under freedom of individuals, while Chinese people are individual under control of rulers.
Great Leap Forward

Korea

Portraits' bank The highest flag tower

Confucianism
The left photo shows a proof of uniform controlled education. A small bank belonged to an elementary shool in Okinawa which contained photos of Mikado and a bible of Education ministry. Boys and girls had to bow it every passing. Teachers taught boys to be good soldiers for Mikado eager and eager. After the Pacific War, GHQ banned such education, teachers easily obeyed the order through Education Ministry. Japanese teachers always did respect to authority of Education Ministry. I remember climbing up it to play with other kids. I did not know it holy those days. Simply teachers have taught boys under the authority since 1868. They had no will either Mikado or GHQ. I said 'dogmatic' teachers in my high school days. The central dogma is Confucianism. The Confucianism is stick to our life, as it were air. IJN assigned commanders under Confucianism during the Pacifc War. USN was more efficient and reasonable for controlling the organization. How does weak confucian navy win against strong pragmatic navy?

People of Japan's neighbor have to show photos of her leaders at their home, I hear. The education of the nation may be extremely uniform and controlled as Japan did. The flag tower of the nation is the highest in the world. Once the naion was governed by the most Confucianism in the world.