In the Japanese company the quality of the education and training resources available for management is regarded as crucial. This book provides a comprehensive explanation of how the Japanese train and develop their managers. What influence do government and leading economic organizations have on the system of management education? Will the principle of lifelong adult education be affected by the possible vulnerability of the concept of lifetime single-company employment? What are the dynamics of Japanese management structures, how do the hierarchies operate and what is the decision-making process? How does management recruitment, job rotation, evaluation and promotion work? What are the forms and methods of in-company education and training and how important are external training organizations and why? How will Japanese management education and training practices evolve in the 1990s? These and related questions are addressed in this work, which is based on original Japanese source material and interviews conducted in Japan.