Purpose We tried to clarify the necessity of counseling training for school teachers. There are many problems in Japanese school education such as classroom and family violences by students, slow learning, neurosis and suicides of students. To prevent those problems, teachers must have the knowledge and the techniques of counseling and should do effective guidance. To form those able teachers, the system of credits on counseling for school teachers in Japanese higher education must be intensified. Contents Jiro Nakazawa There is no full-time counselor system in Japanese schools, and every teather has to be a school counselor. Nine student teachers of Univ.of Tsukuba had experimental counselor training in this summer vacation and it was successful and those student teachers took great advantages of the experience. Kotaro Harano Japanese secondary education is carried out in a classroom system. All students have the same subjects at the same time in the same classroom by the same teacher. Students have no choice of subjects and of teachers. But this system will be over in a near future and students will select their sujects and teachers, and in their selection, students would need counseling. There is also another reason for the necessity of school counselors. That is the big changes in Japanese society and schools must also change following those social changes. Then schools are in need of effective counselors well trained at the university. Yasutaka Kokubu In present Japanese schools, teachers are very poor at counseling students and principals do not see the necessity of counseling. Many problems have arisen lately showing the urgence of counselor training for teachers during college. while training counselors, we must instruct than of the many theories and methods in counseling. In such counselor training, practice of techniques of counseling must be a priority. Mikiko Shimizu The educational functions of counseling are very important to school teachers. Those functions suggest the new principles and new methods of school education. Value identification, self theory, role-playing, sensitivity training and other principles and methods in counseling are very useful to new school education. The skill of human relations is of prime importance to teacher training.