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This article examines schools administrated by Japanese settlers in Seoul from 1880’s to 1910’s. This article focuses on three purposes. First, papers and magazines published by Japanese settlers rather than documents produced by authorities were used to extract public opinion of the Japanese society. Second, this article pays attention to changes of education policy toward Japanese children at the time of the annexation. Third, this article follows the transformation of organizations in charge of education for Japanese children. To be brief, education policy toward Japanese children shifted from education for residents overseas to education for “Naichijin” at the time of the annexation. In this process, “Naichijin” as a role model was emphasized. Regardless of the Government- General’s motto of “Treating all people equally and without prejudice” and “assimilation,” racially segregated education between the colonizer and the colonized continued after the annexation. As a result of the annexation, Keijo Japanese Residents` Association was closed in 1914, and education for Japanese children was taken over by the Keijo School Association. Officers of the Government-General and teachers of Japanese schools expressed worry about the fact that children born or raised in Korea lacked knowledge about their mother country. This perception influenced on the policy making. The basic aim of the Government-General was to offer Japanese children in Korea the same standard of education as their peers in Japan, while taking into consideration the reality of segregation between Japanese and Koreans. They continued pondering how to educate children as imperial subjects with loyalty. Also, mixed residence with the colonized and colonial "bad practices" in Korea were considered.