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A review of research on stress management education (SME) in junior high schools in Japan was conducted from September 2011 to the end of July 2020. Twenty-three articles were collected, seven on first grade students, eight on second grade students, and 13 on third grade students. Seven of the articles were conducted by a junior high school teacher, a school nurse, or a group of teachers. Many of the interventions used in this study included basic stress-related psychological education, such as the concept of stress and coping, and many of them used a combination of these techniques. Most of the interventions showed a trend toward improvement. Thirteen articles used the stress response as a measure of effectiveness, and it was the most common. Most of the articles were published in the bulletins of colleges of education, department of education, and junior highschools affiliated with colleges of education, compared to past literature studies. Among the issues of the research projects, there was a need to use a common scale for measuring the effectiveness of the research projects, to list the amount of effectiveness, and to specify the basic contents of the projects. More effective and efficient programs should be developed in the future.