LDP may skip wording for free education

November 28, 2017

Tokyo- A key panel of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party confirmed on Monday a plan to study not including wording for expanding free-of-charge education in its new draft of constitutional revisions, it was learned on Monday.

At the day's meeting, executives of the LDP's Headquarters for the Promotion of Revision to the Constitution also decided to consider a new constitutional provision urging the government to make efforts for improving the education environment.

The possible provision, which is in line with the LDP's constitutional revision draft released in 2012, is supposed to be added in Article 26, which stipulates that compulsory education "shall be free."

Greater free-of-charge education, an LDP campaign pledge in the Oct. 22 general election, is one of four focal points in constitutional amendment talks within the party. Jiji Press