This article describes and analyzes off‐campus training called gasshuku in Japanese middle and high schools. It shows how Japan's cultural themes and values are created and re‐created in the school. Gasshuku, with its highly structured events to regiment young students, functions as an initiation cere‐ mony or rite of passage into adulthood in today's industrial Japan. TheJapanese school as seen through gasshuku embodies the “trinity” of education: family (discipline), school (knowledge), and church (morals).
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