Traffic safety education in Japan, dates from 1962, with an official notice from the vice Minister of Education concerning prevention of traffic accidents; in this notice accident statistics for 1961 were given. In 1961 in Japan, 500,000 accidents were recorded, injuring 300,000 persons, and killing 13,000. Twenty per cent of fatalities were children aged 15 or younger. Today, in Japanese middle schools, traffic safety education is included as a course of study, the contents of which are given in the `Manual for Safety Guidance at Middle Schools', written by the Education Ministry. Training workshops are held regularly for teachers and teaching materials include audiovisual aids. The french title of this paper is `Manuel et matériel d'enseignement améliorés sur l'éducation en prévention routière pour les élèves d'écoles moyennes'. The german title of this paper is `Verbesserte Fahrlehrer-Handbücher und Medien zur Verkehrsziehung für Schüler an Mittelschulen'.
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