Polytechnic schools in Japan

Polytechnic schools (職業能力開発校, Shokugyō nōryoku kaihatsukō) in Japan are vocational education institutions for short and long term programs, public human resources development facilities under paragraph (1) (i) of Article 15-6 of the Human Resources Development Promotion Law.

Administrator

Prefectures of Japan shall administer polytechnic schools, Municipalities of Japan can establish them but neither the government of Japan, Independent Administrative Institution, nor Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers (JEED) shall administer those institutions.

On the other hand, self employments accredited by prefectures in Japan and fulfill the criteria of ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare can install a vocational training facility for accredited vocational training programs. In that case, with the exception of the restriction of the use of such public facilities names,^[1] it is allowed to name such facility a vocational skills development school.

History

1947 (Shōwa 22) - Employment Security Law was enacted, and vocational training center was defined in Article 27.

1949 (Shōwa 24) - Employment Security Law revised to publicize vocational training centers.

1958 (Shōwa 33) - Employment Security Law (1958) was enacted, and the general vocational training center was defined in Article 5.

1969 (Shōwa 44) - Vocational Training Law was enacted, and the special vocational training school was defined in Article 15. Prefectures of Japan were able to set up advanced vocational training schools as defined in Article 16.

1978 (Shōwa 53) - Vocational Training Law was revised, and special vocational training school and advanced vocational training school was turned into vocational training school as defined in paragraph (1) of Article 14.

1993 (Heisei 5) - Vocational training school became Polytechnic school defined in Paragraph (i) of Article 15-6 of Human Resources Development Promotion Law.

Varied names among prefectures

While there are 166 prefectural polytechnic schools all over Japan,^[2] they are named in different format as follows. The majority of those are called "xy college", while there are no regulating laws or regulations for colleges.^[3]

Polytechnic schools

Advanced technical college (高等技術専門校, Kōtō gijutsu senmonkō) - Aichi, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukuoka, Gifu, Hiroshima, Iwate, Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Kyōto, Miyagi, Nagasaki, Nara, Ōita, Okayama, Saitama, Shiga (nicknamed techno college), Tottori, Yamanashi

Vocational skills development center (職業能力開発センター, Shokugyō nōryoku kaihatsu sentā) - Iwate, Saitama, Tochigi, Tōkyō, Yamagata

Academy of industrial technology (産業技術専門学院, Sangyō gijutsu senmon gakuin) - Fukui, Ibaraki, Wakayama

Advanced engineering school (高等技術学校, Kōtō gijutsu gakkō) - Kagawa, Kōchi Mie

Technological college (技術専門校, Gijutsu senmonkō) - Akita, Nagano, Shizuoka (nicknamed Techno College)

Industrial technological college (産業技術専門校, Sangyō gijutsu senmonkō) - Gunma, Ishikawa, Miyazaki, Tochigi nicknamed industrial tech university (産業技術大学校, Sangyō gijutsu daigakkō)

Technological school (テクノスクール, tekuno sukūru) - Niigata, Tokushima

Advanced institute of technology (高等技術専門学院, Kōtō gijutsu gakuin) - nicknamed college of technology (技術大学校) in Hokkaidō and Hyōgo

Career center (キャリアアップセンター, Kyaria appu sentā) - Chiba

Technology speciality institute (技術専門学院, Gijutsu senmon gakuin) - Toyama

Institute of technology (工科学院, Kōka gakuin) - Aomori

Saga prefecture industrial technology college (佐賀県立産業技術学院, Saga kenritsu sangyō gijutsu gakuin) - Saga

Vocational skills development school (職業訓練校, Shokugyō kunrenkō) - Shizuoka

Polytechnic school (職業能力開発校, Shokugyō nōryoku kaihatsukō) - Fukushima, Gifu, Okinawa

Vocational skills development institute (職業能力開発専門校, Shokugyō nōryoku kaihatsu senmonkō) - Yamagata

Technic college (総合職業技術校, Sōgō shokugyō gijutsukō) - Kanagawa nicknamed Kana Tech College

Advanced technology school (高等技術校, Kōtō gijutsukō) - Shimane nicknamed Techno School

Advanced industrial technology school (高等産業技術学校, Kōtō sangyō gijutsugakkō) - Yamaguchi

Advanced technic school (高等職業技術校, Kōtō shokugyō gijutsukō) - Kanagawa

Advanced vocational technology college (高等職業技術専門校, Kōtō shokugyō gijutsu senmonkō) - Ōsaka

Woodwork school (木工芸術スクール, Mokkō geijutsu sukūru) - Gifu

Bamboo craft and vocational training support center (竹工芸・訓練支援センター, Takekōgei kunren shiensentā) - Ōita

Labor Relations and Women Employment Center (労政・女性就業センター, Rōsei josei shūgyō sentā) - Okinawa

Polytechnic schools by municipalities

There is one municipality administered polytechnic school in 2009 (Heisei 21), Yokohama Central Polytechnic School in Yokohama City, Kanagawa prefecture.^[4]

Accredited private vocational training institutions

There are private institutions for vocational training and education throughout Japan, including the following.

Instrument and Technical Polytechnic School - SANKO Control, SANKO Group Co., Ltd.^[5]

Politechnic School Mokushō-juku (Vocational Training Corporations Mokushō-juku Vocational Education Association)

Toyota Industrial Academy (Toyota)

ONTEX Technical School (ONTEX INC)

Japan Men's Beauty College (General Corporate Judicial Person Japan Men's Beauty Association)

Footnotes

^ Article 17 of the Human Resources Development Promotion Law regulates that if an educational institution is not a public facilities aimed at human resources development, it is not allowed to include "human resources development" in its name.
^ Sourced from data published in Heisei 21 (1999) Health, Labour and Welfare White Paper.
^ It should be noted any such institution is different from a vocational school (special vocational school) or advanced professional school, as defined in the School Education Act of Japan.
^ "Welcome to the Central Polytechnic School!" (in Japanese). City of Yokohama. Retrieved 2016-09-23.
^ "Center for Instrument and Technical Polytechnic and its school". SANKO Group Co., Ltd. Retrieved 2016-09-23.