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The , also known as MEXT, is one of the ministries of the Japanese Government . The Meiji government created the first Ministry of Education in 1871. Reischauer, Edwin O. and Jansen, Marius B. (2005), ''The Japanese Today'', p.187, Tuttle Publishing: Tokyo. was one of the most powerful and influential ministries in the government. Japanese government centralizes Education and it is managed by a state bureaucracy that regulates almost every aspect of the educational process. For example, schools around the country are required to use only government-approved textbooks. Teachers must be Japanese nationals, and are screened to ensure that Japanese children are all getting a proper education. In January 2001 , the former ''Monbusho'' and the former merged into the present MEXT. MEXT is led by a Minister , who is a member of the Cabinet and is chosen by the Prime Minister , typically from the members of the Diet . On September 26 2006 , Prime Minister Shinzo Abe selected Bunmei Ibuki for this position. MEXT is one of three ministries which runs the JET Programme . MEXT offers a prestigious Japanese scholarship, the Monbukagakusho Scholarship , also known as the MEXT or Monbusho scholarship. ROMANIZATION The ministry sets standards for Romanization . Until the 1990s and 2000s , Kunrei-shiki romanization was widely taught in Japanese primary schools, so it was called the ''Monbushō'' system after the predecessor of MEXT. NOTES EXTERNAL LINKS
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