Japan’s Shrinking Universities Seek Foreign Students
Deemphasizing academics in admissions could help attract more
By: Xiaochen Su
The rapidly declining availability of domestic high school students seeking admissions in Japan has created an existential threat for its 780 universities and colleges. Official data from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology shows that the number of 18-year-olds in the country declined from 1.37 mill…
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