Japan celebrated in 1990 the centennial of systematic training of prison personnel. That exceptional accomplishment is linked with the history of modernization beginning only some 125 years ago with the Meiji Restoration. While adapting Western social institutions to Japanese traditions, the reformers introduced new laws and correctional practices. In addition to this unique initiation, inservice training enjoys advantages derived from special characteristics of corrections in Japan. From that basis, the paper traces the affects of factors external to the field of corrections on the evolution of inservice training. The nature of contemporary programs is described.
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