Abstract
Following a revision of the curriculum in 1998, a new curriculum area, the Period for Integrated Study (PIS), was introduced from April 2002 in elementary and lower secondary schools in Japan. The PIS is the most prominent aspect of the new national curriculum. Based on the statements of the Curriculum Council, the PIS aims to help children develop the capability and ability to discover problems by themselves and to solve those problems properly, to learn how to learn and reason, to develop independent thinking and to cope creatively with problem-solving activities and inquiring activities, and to deepen their understanding of their own lives. The author believes entrepreneurship education should be practised in the PIS and this paper illustrates the possibilities based on research into some schools' trial projects. The discussion also covers the present position of entrepreneurship education in Japanese schools.