This paper clarifies the unique circumstances of the establishment of the National Farmers Academy and its unique teaching. The National Farmers Academy opened the school in 1968 and closed the school down in 2010.
　　　Two individuals played a particularly important role in the establishment of the National Farmers Academy : Shiro Tohata, who had already retired from the agricultural bureaucracy at the time but was actively involved in the establishment of the National Farmers Academy, and Hideo Shimoda, a young man who had just joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and was in charge of establishing the specific educational system.
　　　The image of agricultural successors envisioned by Tohata was not that of "fostering model farmers for modernized management," an effort which the government was trying to lead at the time, but an education of the whole man that promoted the cultivation of intellect.
　　　The characteristic of education envisioned by Tohata was born as one aspect of the succession in the thought on agricultural policy of liberal humanism in Japan.

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