Abstract
This chapter looks at one small aspect of the puzzle through the lens of the establishment of Kagoshima's teaching training school in 1875. The documents about the school were preserved by a certain Hojo Kenzo of Yamagata prefecture who had been sent from Tokyo in 1876 to help with its establishment. At first blush, the teacher training school documents suggest fairly close policy alignment between Kagoshima and Tokyo's new education program. Morals were dropped from the core position they occupied in most children's education prior to Meiji and replaced with a greater emphasis on mathematics, the sciences, history, and geography. Perhaps it is possible to go further, however, and suggest that problems at Kagoshima's teacher training school were more than just the product of logistical difficulties, financial constraints, and inherited structural issues. The documents from Kagoshima's teacher training school provide no definitive answers but they do offer a number of clues.
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