桐村 豪文

This paper analyzes the political process surrounding the enactment of the exemption law permitting the system of stock-corporation schools. The analysis will be conducted from the following two points of view: Why the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology allowed the exemption law to be enacted, and what are the features that should be considered when comparing the political process and the contents of the resulting exemption law. I propose two hypotheses to explain the aforementioned points. The first hypothesis is that the Ministry was forced to permit the system as a result of the crisis regarding government subsidy funding for compulsory education. The second is that several politically strategic elements that would allow the Ministry to win the dispute over the enactment of the law, are included in the exemption law.