... attenuation of the 15-year-old school-leaving group in the 1960s, it lost out to the private sector Special Training Schools in the attempt to capture the growing army of 18-year-old school-leavers, ... companies, the most complex, hard-tolearn skills (particularly those on which the competitiveness of the Japanese economy depends) will continue to be the property of the core of permanent workers ... having survived the no-growth crisis in the mid–1970s and the adjustment to slow-growth since, is here to stay That is to say, in spite of some marginal signs to the contrary such as the increased...