Abstract
This paper discusses a research life of a geographer, Bekki Atsuhiko. he was engaged in the research on the regional geography of the Malay Peninsula as a member of the research group of of imperial geopolitics formed at geography department, Kyoto Imperial University. It is needles to say, the purpose of imperial geopolitics was the occupation policy. Bekki's idea for geopolitics emphasized geographical practice and description of regional geography. He had been interested in the geography education since the days before the war, but he took the merit of synthesis of geography education seriously in the postwar social studies. He also took a serious view of the practice of geography and regional geography which differed from the ideas of imperial geopolitics. Bekki engaged in the international education research center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .The main purpose was the international understanding through the investigation of the geography, history textbook .But, when we consider the present conditions of the world, we can not deny the perspectives of original geopolitics in geography education.
