The Social Education Law was enacted in June, 1949. This was the genuine beginning of postwar social education. In November of the same year, Ro-on , the largest association for music appreciation in Japan, was launched in Osaka. While most researchers have never regarded Ro-on as Social education, it had many of the characteristics of associations for social education. Therefore, Ro-on is, in spite of its earliness and size, an overlooked association in the context of social education.
In this article, Ro-on is located as an association for social education and analyzed to clarify which its characteristics belonged to prewar or postwar of social education. The concrete aim of this study is the system of Ro-on and the movement to abolish the joining fee.
This study provides important materials to reconsider the principles of postwar social education in Japan.
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