In fact, the influence of modern Japan on Sichuan's education and culture is not only in the field of education and culture, but also the influence of modern education with new education as the core on the whole Sichuan's social economy and culture is obvious and profound. After returning to China, many students studying in Japan have influenced the whole social life, not only in the field of education, but also in all walks of life, especially in the upper class. For example, students from Japan's East Asia College constantly met people from all walks of life studying in Japan during their inspection tour in Sichuan. Chen, an army captain from Iwakura Railway University in Tokyo, Luzhou, and an arrow furnace met, all studied in Japan for seven years. At that time, the Japanese thought: "Japanese people have considerable influence in Chengdu's upper class, especially in the officialdom, and officials studying in Japan have a great influence." Many overseas students who studied military affairs in Japan took troops after returning home, and many of them became the military backbone of the Revolution of 1911. Liu Xiang, Liu, Yang Sen, Wang Zuxu, Tang Shizun, Pan Wenhua, Peng, Yin, Wang, Deng Xihou, Tian, Sun Zhen, Li Jiayu and Wang, who were active in the military and political arena in Sichuan from the early 20th century to the 1930s, all graduated from Sichuan armament school, Sichuan Army crash school and Sichuan Army primary school respectively. These military schools are mainly run under the influence of Japanese military education, with many teachers and administrators. Zhang Senkai, the founder of Sichuan Silkworm School, personally visited Japan Silkworm School, bought many teaching instruments from Japan and founded the school. The short life of Zou Rong, a democratic revolutionary, played a very important role in the formation of his revolutionary thought. Guo Moruo, Li, Meng, Zhou Taixuan, Wei Shizhen,,,, etc. in Sichuan cultural and educational circles were all enlightened by the influence of modern new learning during this period. Guo Moruo said in his autobiography My Childhood that after two Japanese teachers visited his hometown Shawan, his father began to learn from the Japanese to eat raw eggs. It is conceivable that Japan's influence on Sichuan's modern culture, education and social economy is very far-reaching.
Compared with many eastern regions, before the 20th century, western teaching in Sichuan directly entered government-run schools, while in Sichuan, western countries mainly influenced Sichuan society through missionary schools, and the number of students studying in Japan in Sichuan was among the best in all provinces. In contrast, Japan stood out in Sichuan education in the late Qing Dynasty, and its influence on Sichuan society was more on government-run schools, and then on the upper class of Sichuan society. Now it seems that this influence is often more direct, and it also occupies an absolute position in controlling Sichuan. This determines that the influence of modern Japan on Sichuan culture and education may be more critical and obvious than that of other eastern regions.
However, how to evaluate this influence, because the Japanese military aggression against China has brought unspeakable harm to the people of China, and for a long time, our evaluation of these issues often has a very obvious emotional color. For example, "Japanese religion is a tool for Japanese imperialism to carry out cultural aggression" and "the exchange of Japanese religion is a history of failure", which is the Japanese government's "East Asian preservation theory". In recent years, under the background of reform and opening-up, the ideological emancipation movement often affirmed the Japanese influence on modern education in China without explanation. For example, "Japanese education, especially Japanese normal education, trained the earliest educational theorists and experts with modern educational ideas in China, laid a talent foundation for the development of modern education in China, and they made great contributions to the implementation of the new academic system in the late Qing Dynasty." "Japanese teaching played a great role in the educational reform in the late Qing Dynasty and was an important way for the Qing government to learn Japanese education." "These Japanese teaching practices are widely distributed, not only in big cities such as Chengdu and Chongqing, but also in remote places, which have played a positive role in opening up the atmosphere and spreading modern western culture."