Engineering Training, Education and Retraining, Reeducation of Instructors in Japan - The Role of The Institute of Vocational Training

Automotive industries is a major and synthetic industries now in Japan and have a large effect on the Japanese economy. It is wellknown that the Ministry of Transport has played an important role in the advent of the prosperity of Japanese automotive industries, however, the role of the Ministry of Labor was not always known. It maybe said that the success of Japanese automotive industries has been maintained by innumerable well-trained servicemen and automechanics, in other words, by many instructors who educated and trained them. In this paper, the Japanese public vocational, training systems including the unique instructor education, training and reeducation, retraining at the Institute of Vocational Training are introduced.