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The main research question of this paper is to find out how the gender role changes in modern Japanese education. Therefore, ‘gender’ and ‘education’ are the two key words of this paper and their relationship will be closely investigated throughout the paper. “Education” and “gender” are two very broad topics, but I would like to narrow them down to fit the scope of this paper. Education in this paper is defined as systematic teaching of skills, language and knowledge, passing on moral values and judgment which learned and received accordingly. Gender is a concept with huge debate on its essence, whether it is biologically inborn or socially constructed. Some feminists even note that gender identity is an individual’s self-conception, regardless their biological sex. However, gender in this paper will be simply defined as the two primary sexes, male and female and gender role is regarded as the social constructed role for male and female.