The government's panel on improving Japan's education system has decided to have the government make morals a regular subject in schools. The Education Rebuilding Implementation Council, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and chaired by Kaoru Kamata, president of Waseda University, intends to advise setting up regular formal classes in morals.
The panel is calling for making morals a regular subject by 2018. It wants to increase the hours devoted to morals by making them a regular subject.
Although the panel's announcement stressed the need to halt bullying in schools, its proposal sounds instead like an attempt to instill a nationalistic spirit in students in addition to the goal of creating a better school environment.