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One of the biggest challenges in Japan is to promote economic growth in a rapidly aging society. Given the declining labor force and productivity, some argue that it is indispensable to improve the quality of human resources through recurrent education. To adapt the longevity called “100-year life,” people are required to create many choices about how they structure our life by cultivating various skills. Although some policies are implemented by the Japanese government to enhance relearning, there are still only a small group of people who enroll in graduate universities and Japan’s recurrent education lags behind the rest of the world. This research aims to investigate the beneficial effects of recurrent education on one’s career view by interviewing 10 non-traditional students who have experienced relearning in a graduate university of business administration. Reasons for applying to graduate universities and age groups was found to strongly impact the effects of recurrent education. According to respondents, the significance of relearning in a graduate university rather than utilizing online curriculum and other seminars is the intimacy with professors and other students. This paper introduces two political implications: the concept of “Reskilling” and subsidies to SMEs as potential measures for encouraging working adults to relearn in Japan. |