This paper aims to present a new point of view of research on specialized training colleges as educational research by rethinking youth education in specialized training colleges. After WW2, in Japan, the period of youth was characterized by competitiveness, in accordance with the prevailing style of Japanese employment. Japanese youth educational research gave a segmental definition of youths who have precarious employment and have not followed a standard life course as “non-elite youths.” Using the concept of educational welfare, this paper explains that it is necessary for all youths to overcome the competitive nature of youth education and to be guaranteed opportunities for vocational education. Moreover, this paper confirms the unique role of specialized training colleges as vocational education institutions to solve these problems of youth education, and describes the five factors in the development of education by specialized training college as youth education institutions.

In this paper, we <hikikomori> will proceed with the theory using clues from the emergence of middle-aged and elderly people accompanying the recent 8050 problem. Next, we gave an overview of the actual situation of young unemployed people and the development of measures against young unemployed people, and extracted the issues. From the perspective of employment support, he also referred to the issues of support for young unemployed persons and the <hikikomori> arbitrary operation of both parties and supporters, and clarified the support and issues. Based on these findings, we sought a shift in the view of support from the current situation, which can be said to be a mismatch in support, and presented concrete methods of necessity and concept, as well as the concept of home economics. The problem in this paper is that it is limited to theoretical construction of this thesis, and does not extend to the presentation of empirical knowledge.

As part of our work to confirm the connection with children's literature in the works of Haruki Murakami, we explored the meaning of picture books for Murakami. While Murakami has produced many novels, he has also worked extensively in other genres. At the same time, although he is not a professional translator, Murakami continues to publish more translated books than any other professional and is involved in the picture book genre as well. The first step was to compile all of Murakami’s translated picture books in a list format so that we could get a complete overview of his work. By identifying and organizing Murakami’s statements and words according to these steps, we traced the history of his relationship with picture books and confirmed his awareness and pride as a picture book translator. Meanwhile, in parallel with the fact that Murakami’s creative picture books, such as “Fuwafuwa,” which appear at first glance to be aimed at children, were actually written for adults, we can also see that his translated picture books are not just for children. Therefore, rather than Haruki Murakami’s works transcending the genre of children's literature, we should instead see in the essence of Murakami’s literature a fantasy quality common to children’s literature.