Like last year, Kyokuyo's fresh technicians got their assignment on August 1. They are 4 this year, and all male.

Just like last year, they came back at the end of June from Oita Regional Shipbuilding Craftsmanship Center where they stayed for 3 months, after joining Kyokuyo in April. "All of your boys were excellent this year," told the center's director to our delight.

At the beginning of July, we organized a big welcome party to which participated no less than 40 senior technicians. The freshmen then spent whole one month at 4 different sections in the company's construction division for OJT.

And voilà, they finished 4 month "trainee" period and received a letter of assignment. Fabrication, assembling, finishing and lathe teams have received 1 freshman each in 2010. We renewed our resolve to carefully train them so that they can further develop our acknowledged technical abilities.