Figure 1.--We see very young children at Japanese schools woking with musical instruments. Here the children are performing at a beach outing. They wear uwbaki shoes, kind of like sneakers styled like strap shoes. This was a popular style for younger children. Put the cursor on the image for another view.

We note a range of instrumental music making at Japanese schools. We note activity at both primary and secondary schools. Actually we note younger children performing in bands than we have noted in most other countries. There were various kinds of children's bands. We note both marching bands and other smaller groups. We also note other marching bands, although their uniforms are commonly basic. We believe that that most of the marching bands are school bands. They are not as cloesly associated with the athletic program as is the case in the United States. We see them performing at both school activities as well as what looks like municipal feativals of various kinds. We also note orchestras, although this is usually most common in secondary schhools. We are not sure when music was first introduced as a scgool activity. We note one image of what looks like a school band that looks to have been taken about 1950.

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