Approach to the Learning- typed society and Its Basis: Establishment and Development of Japanese Citizen Center

As the important social educational facility in Japan after t he Second World War, the Citizen Center was notonly the mainplace for Japanese people to participate in the community activities, but the important classroom fo r them to improve their cultural and spiritual quality and carry out the autonom ous learning and free learning. After the war the formation, development and enr ichness of Japanese social educational ideas are closely related to the development, deepening and a series of practical reforms of the Citizen Center. Especial ly in the 21st century when the Japanese society is building an ideal learning- typed society, the existence and development of the Citizen Center has undoubte dlylaid a solid and reliable foundation for the realization of the ideal earlier.