Perhaps the following sources are useful - in terms of what had been taught about the history of the Japanese Empire back then:

in English:

* Japanese Department of Education (1876): Outline History of Japanese Education. Prepared for the Philadelpha Exhibition, 1876. New York: D. Appleton and Company.
* Dai-Nihon kyôiku-kai (1892): A Short Account of the Educational Society of Japan. Tôkyô: Dai-Nihon kyôiku-kai.
* Department of Education (1893): Outlines of the Modern Education in Japan. Tôkyô: Department of Education.
* Department of Education (1893): History of the Empire of Japan. Compiled and translated for the Imperial Japanese Commission of the World´s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A., 1893. Tôkyô: Dai Nippon tosho kabushiki kwaisha.
* Department of Education (1904). Thirtieth Annual report of the Minister of State for Education for the Thirty-Fifth Statistical Year of Meiji (1902-3). Tôkyô: Department of Education.
* Department of Education (1904): Education in Japan. Prepared for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, U.S.A., 1904. Tôkyô: Department of Education.
* K. Asakawa (1907): The History of Nations: Japan. >From the Japanese Government History. Edited with Supplementary Chapters. Chicago: The H.W. Snow and Son Company.
* Department of Education (1910): History of Japanese Education. Prepared for the Japan-British Exhibition, 1910. Tôkyô: Department of Education.
* Department of Education (1915): History of Japanese Education. Prepared for the Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915. Tôkyô: Department of Education.

I have not checked whether the publications from 1904, 1910 and 1915 - "Education in Japan" - are identical. Greg Johnson kindly recommended a book with the same title (published in 1909) already.

in Japanese:

文部省総務局 (1890)：日本教育史資料. Vol. 1. 東京:文部省.

All mentioned books are available in digital format. Please refer to www.archive.org (keywords "Monbusho" or "Education Japan") if interested.

There are other interesting publications in Japanese (full texts and abstracts) about education and its contents in its historical perspective, mainly published by the 帝国教育(学)会, in the 近代デジタルライブラリー (http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/index.html) of the National Diet Library of Japan, although it all depends of course on the structure that your term paper should have.

Maik Hendrik Sprotte

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Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg Germany http://www.sprotte.name http://www.historische-japanforschung.de