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To carry forward government's basic philosophy and policy on youth fostering, Japanese government puts efforts for improving youth environment by preparing youth policies in various aspects such as "Children · Youth White Paper" and "The Politic Plan for Youth. As a part of such efforts, Japanese government has been managing national and public youth education facilities such as Youth Outdoor Learning Center, Youth Exchange House, Children Culture Center, and Outdoor Education Facility with National Olympics Memorial Youth Center as the central figure through incorporation of national facilities as independent administrative corporations. On this account, this study looked into Japan's youth policy as a part of Japan's fostering policy and improvement of fostering environment for children · youth, and conducted case research on national youth education facilities centering around development, operational purpose and program of National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, 14 national youth outdoor learning centers and 13 national youth exchange houses. As a result, it is learned that Japan has been managing youth policies in various aspects considering connectivity between youth policy and improvement of youth environment, and such well-balanced directivity is considered to become a model suggesting positive directivity for Korea's youth policy and improvement of youth education facilities. Thus, Korea needs to establish directivity in youth policy reflecting youth's paradigm that its tendency and requirements have changed by being influenced by the social changes, and it is also required to develop experiential and accommodating functions variously targeting educational officials including youth and foreigners in respect of youth educational environment. For its consideration on the current conditions of Japan's youth education facilities, this study is expected to be used as preliminary data for establishment of Korea's youth policy and improvement of youth environment in the future.