Japan, some of the career education in high school has been promoted so that more
young people will remain in the region. However, few researches have been done on its
effects. That is the reason why this paper reviewed studies on it. The author used the
databases “J-STAGE” and “CiNii Articles,” from which twenty-six related articles were
extracted. This paper divided the articles into two categories according to whether the
effects were measured before students’ graduation or after, and classified the articles.
The main findings were as follows: (1) Most of the studies were focusing on the effects
“before” students graduated from their high schools, and few studies were looking at
the effects “after” their graduation. (2) Most of the effects “after” graduation were
analyzed quantitatively. (3) In most of the studies analyzed in this paper, it was
uncertain whether the effects were truly caused by the career education itself.
Thus it is suggested that a more sophisticated study design is needed to inspect the
effects of career education and that more analyses of survey data should be done related
to education and employment.