日本文部省的一份统计资料表明,截止1998年5月1日,日本全国共有幼儿园15220所,其中私立幼儿园8903所,占58.5％;在园幼儿数2067991人,其中私立园幼儿数占75.3％。从以上两组数字可以看出,私立幼儿园在日本幼儿园教育中所占的 Statistics from Japan’s Ministry of Education show that as of May 1, 1998, there were 15,220 kindergartens in Japan, of which 8,903 were private kindergartens, accounting for 58.5% of the total. There were 2,067,991 toddlers in the park, of which children in private gardens accounted for 75.3%. As can be seen from the above two sets of figures, private kindergartens in Japan’s kindergarten education accounted for