Abstract
The yearly change of graduates from the schools of various level (technical high school, school for technicians, college and university) is analysed. The source is the statistics of Ministry of Education. Approximately 3.1 million electrical engineers and technicians were educated in Japan in the period from 1945 to 1999. The graduates from electrical engineering courses/schools were almost masculine. We can say that one out of 10-15 young boys became electrical engineers/technicians. In the period, big changes in the number of electrical graduates occurred three times. The first was the transition from old education system to new one just after WWII. The second occurred in the mid-1960s, accompanying the economic growth in Japan: the technical high schools were newly established. In the third, the number of electrical graduates has been decreasing gradually since the 1990s. In recent years, approximately seventy thousand electrical engineers and technicians are educated every year.
