Abstract
Marking a century since the commencement of forestry and its specialized education. Recently, forests have been more actively utilized for varied purposes as well as professional education, which has led to active studies on forest education. However, there have been no systematic reviews to date comprising a grasp of forestry education studies in Japan’s forestry sector. This article targets wide-ranging comprehension and a systematic review of studies on forestry education in Japan. To achieve the target, the Japan Forest Society and its associated and related societies extracted sources relating to forestry education after examining each of the released academic journals. Moreover, examination of extracted literature, arranged in chronological order and based on subjects, showed that the extracts during 1925-2011 amounted to 448, with recent soaring numbers following a sporadic increase until the 1980s. This article classifies our historical forestry education studies into research which deals with specialized education and its educational sites such as forests and related exhibiting facilities. It emerges that research dealing with specialized education, starting with forestry education, has developed into professional education at high schools and universities and educational training, while research dealing with forests and related facilities has started studying the function of forests, starting with school forests owned by schools for educational purposes, followed by experimental forests.
