Abstract
Industrial education at the high school level in Japan was in the face of a great change in 1985. With the surge of Japan's economic development and a growing trend toward higher academic career, the employment rate of youths who received industrial education at high schools went down drastically, which caused the industrial education at the high school level to be at stake. The late Mr. Toshio Hosoya, professor of Tokyo university, a distinguished researcher on middle school industrial education in Japan, paid his attention since its earlier stage to the transition of the fluctuation at the high school level, leaving excellent treatises. This monograph is attempting to consider the discrepancies lying between the real state and the actual educational administration executed by the Ministry of Education in charge of the education on the basis of the direction of the educational change pointed out by Professor Hosoya in his treatises. Since 1981 to 1985, the ministry set up and held Science and Industrial Education Council to make out a prescription to cope with the change of industrial education, which failed to regenerate the education, nor helped to recreate a new education. Japan's industrial education was at the mercy of the drastic reform without any definite theory what with problems of jurisdiction among the government offices and poor prospects for the transition from the industrial society to the post-industrial, and what with offshore production problems of factories at home being transferred to developing countries. Professor Hosoya's theory was not put into Practical use. After the period, Japan suffered from a long-term severe economic depression. Consequently corporate inservice training which had a great fame globally was thoroughly influenced by that along with the education at schools. Industrial education in Japan has ceased to maintain its tradition and its environment has been transformed extremely. I firmly believe that its renovation can only be made possible with the initiation of Professor Hosoya's theory.
