In Japan, the teacher license renewal system started in 2009. After 12 years, the Ministry of Education announced the abolishment of this system. In this article, we clarify teachers’ ideas about this system and its abolishment. To do this, we examined the survey data for teachers who attended the teacher license renewal program at University B. The results are as follows: 1) Many teachers strongly criticized the teacher license renewal system and thought it would be a financial and time burden. 2) While the teachers attached some importance to teacher license renewal courses at universities, they thought that the training already offered by the educational board was sufficient. In other words, they saw no need for a new course to replace the teacher license renewal course. They desired for the contents of the existing training to be reviewed and reformed without increasing the burden. 3) The teachers wanted knowledge and skills that would be immediately useful in their duties, such as classroom practice and pupil guidance. Theoretical knowledge such as domestic and international information, and theories of education was not given much importance.