The new geographical curriculum will introduce in Japanese high schools in 1982, in which geography put out from compulsory subject in social studies.
In the author's opinion, most pupils will select other subjects, except geography. In this circumstances, most students will enter to universities without fundamental knowledges of geography. In other hand, geography is not necessary to obtain licence for teachers in elementary schools, although geography or geographical knowledges are very important in social studies in elementary school. These are main reasons the author profess geography should be a compulsory subject in the curriculum of the teacher training in the Japanese universities.
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