Many intellectuals discussed the theory of cultural policy in the second decade of the Showa Era and World War II. It has been deemed that pre-war theory of cultural policy in Japan defines the theoretical ground to support a war footing. In this paper the theory of those days was re-examined by analysis of some literature, e. g. “a special number of cultural policy” (Education, 1938), “The administrative law of culture” (Nakamura, T., 1940). This paper suggested that the intellectuals of those days tried to develop their original theory of cultural policy in their way possible.