Abstract: Japanese overseas children and returnees education is a kind of education for children and teenagers who have grown up in two or more cultures with the increase of Japanese overseas enterprises in the 1960s. The Japanese government has paid special attention to this special group，and formulated the overseas childrens education policy centered on “establishing overseas Japanese schools” and the education guidelines for returned children centered on “language education”. These policies are inseparable from the theoretical support of intercultural education. The research on cultural adaptation in the field of intercultural education points out a clearer guiding path for Japan to analyze and solve the education problems of overseas children and returnees. China should pay more attention to the educational needs of intercultural children and teenagers, establish and improve relevant policies and systems represented by the education of overseas children and returnees, and strengthen research on the cultural adaptation of intercultural children such as overseas children and returnees, so as to promote the education and development of intercultural teenagers represented by overseas children and returnees.

Key words: Japan, overseas children and returnees education, intercultural education, education policy, cultural adaptation