Since the beginning of the Wartime-Regime the Nomin-Dojo, founded in 1934 for the purpose of training leaders among farmers, took a new position as the primary organization in the campaign to increasing the food supply.
Although in January 1946 it was renamed Kaitaku-Zosan-Shuren-Nojo (a training farm for clearing land and increasing food production), soon in January 1949 it was renovated again as Keiei-Denshu-Nojo (an extension farm for agricultural management). When the Natural Resources Section of GHQ/SCAP questioned officials of the Ministry of Agriculture in May 1949 on the reason why agricultural education was free from control by the Ministry of Education, they insisted that Keiei Denshu Nojo surely would result in strong activities in agricultural agencies. It is the new character that this institute received in the Post-War Era.
When Nogyo-Daigakkou (An Agricultural College) was founded as a renewed organization in 1981, the revised new act defined it as equal to a junior college. That is to say, 47 years had passed before this training and educational institute for farmers was integrated into the Ministry of Education. In these points we could recognize a continuity from the Pre- to the Postwar Era. We regard it as unique, especially compared with the development of agricultural high schools.

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Agricultural Colleges (hereafter, ACs) located in each prefecture have training courses targeting middle-aged people who intend to start farming as well as educating courses targeting younger generation. However, both curriculums of the training courses and attributes of the trainees are also diverse in each AC. This paper aims to clarify the relationship between the traineesʼ attributes and their appreciation of the course curriculums with a focus on their potential managerial and entrepreneurial orientations by using data from a national questionnaire survey of ACʼs trainees classified into two types of course curriculums (full-year or mid-to-short term). Results are revealed as follows. First, their potential managerial and entrepreneurial orientations were different by their age, their family business (farmer or not), and their desired plans after graduation. Second, in the full-year course curriculum, trainees with strong management orientation were more satisfied with the various course contents. On the other hand, many of highly management-oriented trainees required higher quality of contents such as practical management skills and networking activities. Those results imply that mid-to-short term training courses have difficulty in improving their course contents to attract their potential entrepreneurs.

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