The Change from Private Nursery Services into Public Facilities and the Thought on Lunch Programs :

The Historical Background of Dual Systematization as Kindergarten-Nursery Systems

Abstract

In this paper, I examine the reasons why nursery services were converted into public services during Taisho period, the first term of Showa period in modern Japan. At the time of the formation of "Koritsu Takujisyo," the beginning of the public day nursery, social services were transformed into public institutions against a background of modern Japanese Liberalism influenced by Social Liberalism. I examine the process of how kindergartens became separately systematized from nurseries using the thought on lunch programs based on nutrition.