Abstract
The first business school in modern Japanese educational system was established in 1875 in Tokyo. This school was called "Shoho-Koshusho", the curriculum of which had a distinct characteristics as class for business activities training called "Business practice". This subject consisted of two courses, "Lecture" course and "Practice" course, and the latter course had to be taken in the higher grade after having mastered the former course in the lower grade. "Prctice" class was done in the special classroom called "Jissen-room", which should have been equipped in all business schools by the "Business schools Law" in 1899. This subject had contents of knowledges and skills about all business activities, from book-keeping to banking, transportation, warehouse and correspondense. Business school had been developed through the period of Meiji, Ttaisho, Showa Era. "Business Practice" had been the essential subject of business school curriculum, having formed characteristics as synthetic subject which should be learned in the higher grade after learning basic learning such as book-keepig, business-correspondence, commerce and economics in the lower grade at business school. Its core containied business activitiy training useful for the business.
