Yokosuka Shipyard, which was established to introduce Western technology in the closing days of the Tokugawa regime, had an in-plant training school. One of the most important characteristics of the education/training was that they held a part-time schooling system consistently since the school had been established. I collected the graduates' reumes in order to clarify their activities in their school days. Paying attention to their activities of half days in the factories, I found the following pattern of development. At first it was just simple work, but later on it took on a whole new meaning as it became a positive opportunity for education and training on the job. It was called Jitsugyo', and in the end it had been composed of intentional job rotations. I understood that the aim of the school was creating manpower through clarifying concrete methods in the process and development of Jitsugyo. *Jitsugyo; was an activity that consisted of OJT through half day work in factories at the Yokosuka Shipyard.

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This paper analyzed the formation and change of the secondary professional schools in the People's Republic of China, focusing on the position with in the school system, the curriculum, the graduate assignment, and the occupational qualification. The secondary professional schools, which founded in 1952, influenced from the old Soviet Union, trained a large quantity of precious technological talented people as a main force of the vocational education in the People's Republic of China. Specially, the secondary professional schools had bigger existence meaning than it of the old Soviet Union such as the People's Republic of China to "the Great Cultural Revolution" whose diffusion rate of the higher education was low. The tendency of the "theory class" emphasis and "foundation theory" emphasis were presumed the curriculum of the secondary professional schools more than the curriculum of the vocational high schools and skill-engineering schools. An occupational qualification had only rough classification, though the special kinds of the secondary professional schools were classified delicately. In the present plan of the reform for the secondary vocational education, it seems that the secondary professional schools secondary professional school will be take a center place of that reorganization.

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The Shoho no Radio (once subtitled the 'Beginner's Radio') which was the earliest monthly radio magazine mainly for boys and girls (referred to here simply as 'youngsters') in Japan had first published in 1948 by Seibundo Shinkosha Publishing Co., Ltd., and had continued until 1992. This study focused on the Beginning Period (1948-1952) of the Shoho no Radio and analyzed the contents of introductory articles for youngsters written and drawn by Hiroshi IZUMI, a Kagaku Kiko Ka (a Science Writer/Contributor), who was one of the main and leading contributors of the Shoho no Radio contemporaneously, and clarified some characteristics of his works, and then, clarified their contemporary educational meanings in Japan. Through the analyses of the contents, synthetically, it is clarified that a series of Hiroshi IZUMI's works in that period had characteristics with his careful consideration to the selection, the composition and the arrangement of the contents of articles related to knowledge and understanding of youngsters and to a certain sequence or system of the contents of an introductry electronics technology. Therefore, it seems that the Beginning Period of the Shoho no Radio had such important educational meanings for youngsters not only in respect of creating and enlarging the opportunities for the study of electronics technology, that was discontent with the contemporary school education, but also in respect of the complements to the contemporary realities of school education in an aspect of the offering contents of articles.

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We researched the Case of Destinations in Technical High School in Kawasaki City. The obtained results were compared with the survey results published by National Institute for Educational Research in 1961. In based on the obtained results, we investigated the factors affected with destination decision in the recent Technical High School graduates. The rate of entering school high grade in the Technical High School was higher year by year, although the rate of employment was high still since 1990. Moreover, the rate of entering school high grade was higher than that obtained by National Institute for Educational Research in 1950's, which the Technical high school graduates of approximately 90% had got job. The rate of entering the 4-grader university was higher in that of entering school high grade and the Technical High School graduates tended to aim at the higher education, whereas the rate of entering the professional school was lower. On the other hand, from the rate of employment maintained over 60% and the 60% of the employer got job in the occupation of the industry, it was found that the role of which the Technical High School in Kawasaki City cultivated the engineer of matching war potential was achieved to some extent. The higher rate of entering school high grade was attributed that the Technical High School students decided the course by themselves in not the meaning which decided going on to school of high grade for the effect of recession. From above results, it was suggested that the higher rate of entering school high grade affected by a factor in which the Technical High School graduates were forced the field-work for the most part of the work.

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