Notes on Contributors \ Preface \ Acknowledgement \ Foreword by Sir Bernard Crick \ Foreword by John J. Hogan \ Part One: The Administration of Citizenship Education in Japan \ 1. The History of the Idea of Citizenship and its Teaching in Japan before World War II - Kazuya Taniguchi \ 2. Postwar Citizenship Education Policy and its Development - Norio Ikeno \ The Birth of the Dominant Teaching Paradigm for Social Studies in Japanese Elementary Schools: Dominant Teaching Strategies for Citizenship Education in Social Studies after the 1877 Course of Study in Japan - Masao Yoshida \ Part Two: The Citizenship Education Curriculum in Japan \ 4. The History of Citizenship Education in the Postwar Course of Study: Moral Education and Other Topics - Hirokazu Kimura \ 5. The Evolution of Postwar Guidelines for Teaching Social Studies and Citizenship Education in Japan - Tomoyuki Kobara \ 6. Citizenship Education in Social Studies Textbooks and Supplementary Readers in Postwar Japan - Kazuhiko Iwata \ 7. The Characteristics of Citizenship Education Practices in Japan: Two Projects that Teach Controversial Issues - Kotaro Yoshimura \ 8. Issues in Citizenship Education: 8.1 International Global and Multicultural Education as an Issue in Citizenship Education - Takaaki Fujiwara \ 8.2 The Environment as an Issue in Citizenship Education - Mitsuhari Mizuyama \ 8.3 Geographical Education as an Issue in Citizenship Education - Kazuhiro Kusahara \ 8.4 Historical Education as an Issue in Citizenship Education: Four Issues of Citizenship Education in Japan after World War II With Reference to History Teaching - Kazuhiro Mizoguchi \ Part Three: Researching Citizenship Education in Japanese Schools \ 9. The Curriculum of Ochanomizu Elementary School and the Role of the New Field of Study Called 'Citizenship' - Soji Katakami \ 10. Citizenship in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo - Yoshiharu Toda \ Part Four: The Pros and Cons of Social Studies and Citizenship Education \ 11. The Assessment of Students in Citizenship Education in Japan - Kenji Tanahashi \ Index