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In Japan, after the school turf movement in 1970s, only a few turfs were settled on school grounds until the next wave began about late 1990's. After 2000,many school turfs were settled in Japan. The turfs of public high schools in the south Kanto region were surveyed in 1997. That year is just before the turning point of school turf history. There were some differences between the school turfs before and after the year 2000. Those schools which already had turf in 1997 had had relatively wide school ground. Recently some cool season grasses are planted on some school grounds. However, all of the turfgrasses of surveyed schools were zoysiagrasses (Zoysia matrella and Z. japonica). Fertilizer was supplied only at some of the schools. It can be said that the characteristic of the school turf of 1997s is low maintenance turf with zoysiagrasses on wide school grounds.School personnel had been playing main role of maintenance work of the turf at most schools. The students had participated in the maintenance work at 7 schools among surveyed 16 schools. The work had ordered to professional company from only 2 schools. Many teachers and students had thought that heavy labor was problem to keep turf on the grounds. But most of them had thought that the merit of the turf is much more than the problem.
