240Secondary Education for Girls under the Japanese Occupation: Focusing on the Mongols in ManchukuoThis study aims to clarify the actual situation of secondary education for Mongolian girls in Manchukuo, which was a colony under Japanese occupation from 1932–1945. I examine how educational policy of training “good wives and wise mothers,” was introduced in the secondary education of Mongolian girls in Manchukuo, and whether the Mongolian girls became good wives and wise mothers in accordance with the Japanese intentions. I focus on the Xing’an Girls National High School (XGNHS) established in Xing’an Province of Manchukuo. In the case of XGNHS, the Japanese rulers were only trying to use the Mongolian girls as a tool for colonial rule. However, the girls were by no means submissive to the wishes of the Japanese rulers. After the defeat of Japan in 1945, many Mongolian girls who had been trained at XGNHS actively participated in the revolutionary movement, and contributed to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. They were instrumental in the creation of Inner Mongolia and became the pioneers of the Mongolian women’s movement. This study is based primarily on literature review.Atsuko SHIMBO
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