 This popularity also raised interest in the field of education.In the 1870s, there were a number of people who were raising concerns over the total westernisation of Japanese schools.The Ministry of Education carried out an investigation, the most notable in 1883 by the National Institute of Gymnastics (Taiso Denshujo), and then the 1896 investigation carried out by the School Health Advisors' Board (Gakko Eisei Komonkai).