The social environment for higher education is expected to have made great changes from the current state by the beginning of the 21st century. In order to create Distinctive Universities in a competitive environment, the University Council made a report, A Vision for Universities in the 21st Century and Reform Measures: To be Distinctive Universities in a Competitive Environment, in October 26, 1998. One of the strengthening method for the university education, MEXT(the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) aim to improve the appointment system of university teachers. This paper examines the traits of university faculty members appointment system in Japan. This paper focuses on the five points, as follows: Firstly, university faculty members are composed of professor, assistant professor, assistant, and lecturer. (School Education Law, article 58) Each of the status has a quorum, and the promotion of assistant to a assistant professor in the same faculty is traditionally forbidden as like a German universities. Secondly, the regulations and qualification for appointment of professor and that of assistant professor is not the same. When it occurs a vacancy on a professor status, they adopt to using the competitive appointment system between the assistant professor who serves on their own university and anyone who has the ability to be that status. Thirdly, the practical procedures for appointment are implemented by the appointment committee in each of the faculty. In the case of Tokyo university, the recommendation committee are composed of 7 members, in which the recruitment course faculty members are less than 4 members(including the chairperson of faculty). Fourthly, in order to boost the mobility of university faculty members and the young researchers, the government advise to assemble the university teachers openly, and introduce the selective-tenure-term system. But it is not diffused broadly. It was implemented only for the restricted positions and the newly appointed members. Fifthly, the pre-position of newly appointed university faculty members are very various, and the rate of mobility of university teachers are about 15% per year. The inbreeding rate of national university faculty members are a little high(43%) than that of public and private universities(30.9% and 31.4% in each). Investigating the above traits of university faculty members appointment system, that is very different from that of Korea. The Doctoral degree is not the indispensable element for university recruitment in Japan. It is important to prove one`s own ability for research. So it is desirable to reference the recommendation committee system for the research centered universities, even though we need to elevate more the objective condition for appointment system.