ABSTRACT
In the spring of 1951, Lowell Mellen and his associates
from TWI, Inc. began teaching TWI classes in Japan
under contract with the U.S. military occupation. Mellen
had been a district representative of the TWI Service in
Cleveland during the war and he formed TWI, Inc. in
order to continue implementing the program when the
service disbanded in September 1945 at the end of WWII.
After successfully planting the three original J programs