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The Education and Training on Judicial Interpretation and Translation in Japan: A study on the Osaka University’s Program. Interpreting and Translation Studies 13-2, pp. 45-64 Recently, the exchange of people who come and go to foreign countries is active along with advances in globalization. Under the circumstances civil disputes and criminal cases to which foreigners are related increase. However, as Cho (2009) pointed out, the certification exam and the qualification system for judicial interpreters are not yet ready in Japan. Moreover, the opportunity of education is limited, particularly in terms of training language skills. The main subject of this paper is focusing on the program of judicial interpretation and translation studies in Osaka University to explore an ideal method of education for the future. It classifies the “Response Paper,” which contains studerts' comments for their class, according to contents, and clarifies the problems of each subject. This paper found out that the program of judicial interpretation and translation studies in Osaka University was by and large an enhanced and systematic program. As Cho (2009) pointed out, however, the program lacked sufficient training in terms of language skills. There is an urgent need for this program to balance the theoretical "education" and the practical "training".