The company I worked for in Japan (enormous engineering company) gave us a 6 month training period before sending us to our assigned departments (I was sent to their research lab arm). Training continued periodically afterwards with these short 2-3 day boot camp sort of things that you could go to, with the agreement of your boss.

That being said, at least in my case, all this training was meant to bring new grads who were clueless in certain areas (ex: in corporate etiquette) up to a basic standard. It wasn't meant to make you excel at anything.