The aim of this paper is to identify key challenges facing Japan's higher education since the
early 1990s and their impacts on major research themes. In this paper key challenges …

… This paper focuses on universities, because they dominate this sector: according to the
most recent survey, while there are 2,836,127 university students (including 262,686 graduate …

… in higher education than Japan; however, given Japan’s relatively larger population, its higher
education … After the Second World War, the expansion of higher education was focused on …

… of the nation-state in relation to the internationalisation of higher education needs to be
further engaged with and investigated, and thus focuses on Japan in particular as a case study. …

… After World War 2, the focus of higher education reform was on increasing its access to a
larger portion of the population, first to attract more science and engineering students in the …

… This article focuses on the process of internationalization of higher … this article will focus on
how Japanese universities have been reformed to improve the quality of education. A national …

… in Japanese higher education, concerning the tensions emerging within the system regarding
‘excellence’ and ‘diversity’. The article particularly focuses on how Japanese universities …

This paper discusses the meaning of the internationalization of higher education in Japan, …
changes to higher education, and in order to deal with them, the Japanese government has …

… observations on Japanese higher education which might be … of the fact that higher education
in Japan was already similarly … women’s education and career became a major focus of the …

… Its characteristics basically focus on higher education policy relating to the market principle.
… higher education in Japan, almost equivalent to those of the prewar and the postwar reforms. …