In order to boost the growth potential of Japan’s economy by utilizing this strength, it is necessary to spread to other worksites the know-how of people who worked in the front-runner firms that lead the industry. Also, it is important to pass on the advantages of genbaryoku to the next generation.
With that in mind, some local governments and universities have been training as monozukuri instructors people in their 50’s and 60’s who have retired from manufacturing firms and sending those instructors to small firms to spread and pass on special techniques to others. In such a process, regional financial institutions play a major role.