The aims of this research are to examine the activities of the Sea Scouts just before World War II, and consider the reaction of the Scouts who participated in these activities. In this research, the following three topics are taken up as concrete examples of sea activities where the Scouts who got in the training ship, which the Boy Scouts of Nippon got from Hokkaido Imperial University.
First, the participation in the naval reviews held in 1927 and the following year. Second, the boarding to the training ship by H. M. the Emperor Showa in May, 1930. Third, the long voyage to Southeast Asia between July and November, 1934. These activities must have had big influence on the Scouts. Since this research took up these Sea Scouts activities just before World War II as case studies in outdoor educational research, it did not dare have touched on the political intention or ideology by the adults in these activities. Rather, I have forcused on showing clearly the historical facts, what the Scouts had been experienced through such activities. The historical record which I mainly used is the bulletin “Shonendan Kenkyu” which Shonendan Nihonrenmei, the Boy Scouts of Nippon, had published every month.
