Last year,450,job-seekers went though lwao's training centers in Tokyo,Osaka Nagoya and Fukuoka.He expects 1200 this year.Since competition for jobs is tough,he advises clients to change their way of thinking and look beyound Japan's major corporation to small firms. lwao has succeeded in part because he is much like his clients--a middle-aged man facing a mid-career setback who took a gamble and won.