Abstract
Against a new social stratification by globalization and structural reform, one of the focuses of today's education policy is to seek social equity in education more than ever. This article, as a keynote presentation of the symposium, aims to organize the trend of the modem educational policy promoted under the structural reform. Today's public education policy is remaking the education of Japan into one corresponding to globalization with meritocracy, the market principle, and the morality principle. Japanese education, children and young people are strongly influenced not only by the narrowly-defined education policy but also by various policies of other areas, especially the self-support social policy of integrating people left without enough public service, and local administration and finance policies which put the national finance reconstruction. It is indispensable to understand these policies structurally to secure fairness in education and society and to attempt a new Japanese education policy on the basis of egalitarian principles.
