Abstract
Today, Japan is becoming a highly intelligent society thanks to the rapid development of information engineering. Due o the rapid development of the information industry, however, is has gradually run short of information engineers. Further the U.S. is currently reinforcing the protection of intellectual property. It has become urgent for Japan therefore to train people to become information engineers. Thus, The Ministry of International Trade and Industry, The Ministry of Postal Services, The Ministry of Labor, and some local self-governing bodies are proposing training plans. The number of Japanese information engineers equals that of the U.S.. But they are qualitatively inferior to them. Japan is above all running short of highly skilled engineers who can program OS for instructors of higher educational institutes. This is due to Japanese software education programs existing in higher educational institutes. In comparison with the U.S., it is obvious that Japan has too few instructors and students and poor curriculum as far as software education is concerned. Moreover, sectionalism in universities prevents interdisciplinary development of computer science. As a solution, it is suggested that base information universities be established, thereby attempting to effectively utilize the few available instructors and avoiding sectionalism. Hopefully these universities would also educate the higher engineers that would become instructors at other universities.
