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The purpose of this article was to introduce about nuclear power education in Japan. In this paper, it was described the needs and backgrounds of nuclear power education, the contents of nuclear energy of elementary and secondary school textbooks, and the educational cases of nuclear power at school education or extraordinary curricular in Japan. The implications of this study were as follow. 1) The nuclear power education needs an educational system from elementary school to university level. 2) Inservice program and supporting system for science teachers and social studies teachers will be adapted for the nuclear power education. 3) There are also required to educational systems of nuclear power education for the teachers training universities. 4) The high level specialists of nuclear power were demanded at university level. And 5) the government and company will have to be concerned with nuclear power education.