Abstract
The school text books on the Japanese Literature for primary schools, ever since the Meiji era until the early period of the Showa era, played an outstanding role on the supplementation of the geographical, historical and scientific education. This traditional role, however, changed since 1933. The reason for this change was because the national language education in the primary schools got rid of being a subordinate to other educational subjects, but it turned into its intrinsic position in the same way as in the European countries and the United States of America.
Now, the students of primary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools, especially girl students in Japan at present, are inclined to dislike the subject of social studies. In particular, there is a condition for anxiety in geography. The reasons for this dislike of the social studies, are concerned with the system of teachers training. It has been the author's regret, that there were many problems in the description of the geographical matters, the literary style of the geographical textbooks does not appeal to the sensuous condition of the young students as the textbooks of the Japanese Literature might do.
