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The scheme of professional graduate school, launched in 2003, aiming to develop advanced professional human resources, has been widely exploited in various fields and recognized as the core device for recurrent education in Japan. Promoting standardization of the learning content at professional graduate schools is as important as promoting the certified evaluation and accreditation system to ensure the quality of education, which also helps improve the social cognition and respond to the issues on mutual recognition of professional qualifications on a worldwide basis. The member schools of the Japan Association of Professional Graduate Schools of Technology Management (J-MOT) developed Core Curriculum 2010 in March 2010 with the aim of harmonizing learning content. It had played a significant role at MOT professional graduate schools in terms of program design and accreditation. However, the rapid social, economic, and technological changes later on led to the need for the review of Core Curriculum 2010. In respond to this demand J-MOT member schools have agreed to implement the research and studies concerning the development of core curriculum in graduate schools for management professionals (MOT field) and revise the MOT education core curriculum as a part of the 2016 Leading Management Human Resource Enhancement and Development Programs. The revision was led by the Revision Committee of the MOT education core curriculum consisting of the representatives of the MOT member schools. We developed the revised version of the core curriculum as Core Curriculum 2016 reflecting the opinions from industry and relevant organizations. We hope that each MOT professional graduate school will endeavor to provide their own unique education. We would like to express our gratitude to those who participated in this project as a committee member and provided us of their valuable inputs. We also would like to take this opportunity to thank for their kind support everyone from the Professional Education Division of the Higher Education Bureau at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Academia Industry Cooperation Promotion Office, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Finally, we organized workshops in order to cooperate with overseas countries especially with Asian countries, for exchanging information and opinions with the schools offering postgraduate education for practitioners. The workshops deepened our mutual understanding and may result in further cooperation based on what we achieved from this revision. We would like to continue working on improving MOT education in Japan and the world. Revision Committee of the MOT education core curriculum March 2017 26 Afterword