Abstract
This paper analyzed the systematic characters of the Institute for Industrial Teacher Training attached to Osaka High Industrial School by comparing it to the Institute for Teacher Training attached to Tokyo High Industrial School. The results of the analysis were as follows: (a) The Osaka Institute followed the system of the Tokyo Institute in the third period when it experienced a reduction and quality change after Tejima Seiichi, the Principal of Tokyo High Industrial School retired in 1915. (b) The curricula of two Institutes for consisted of the discipline for teaching profession as well as the courses of each High Industrial School for preparing engineers. But Osaka High Industrial School emphasized more on the design and drawing courses in the engineer training programs, although Tokyo High Industrial School emphasized more on the shop-work courses in the program. (c) Of all the graduates from the Osaka Institute, 56% of them managed to get a teaching job. Only 41% of those with a teaching job were employed at industrial schools while the rest were employed at lower secondary school and girls' high school around Kansai area.
