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Gakureki shakai: The problems of pyramid-shaped University Ranking System | Education in Japan blog
Guts, glory and shaved ice: Koshien baseball | Japan Times, August 3, 2013
Higher Education and the Japanese Disease | Nippon.com
Higher Education in Japan | MEXT (see see bulletpoint 3 (2) on accreditation)
Higher Education Finance and Cost-sharing in Japan
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Koshien Heroes – High School Baseball in Japan
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“Lesson Study” as Professional Culture in Japanese Schools
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The Debate over Japan’s Academic Decline | Nippon.com
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Times Higher Education, 7 Jun 2012 “Beyond those shores”
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See also the Bundle of articles from JAPAN HIGHER EDUCATION OUTLOOK (JHEO)
- A brief look at academic freedom in HE in Japan
- Accreditation of HE in Japan: English-language resources and links
- An extended look at academic freedom in Japan HE
- Are universities in Japan accredited?
- Demographic disaster for Japan higher education Pts. II-III
- Demograpic disaster for Japan higher education Pt. I
- ELT in Japan online publication now launched
- End of Japan’s National Development State for Higher Education
- End of the national development state for HE in Japan
- Follow-up: Japan and Malaysia to establish a joint university of technology
- Getting Information on Japan’s Higher Education IN ENGLISH
- How many universities are there in Japan?
- Is University of Tokyo Japan’s only world-class university?
- Japan aims for world class universities
- Japan and Malaysia to establish a joint university of technology
- Japan’s tertiary education system: Developments in the Koizumi era of reform
- Microsoft partners with top Japanese universities
- Over half a million take university entrance exams in Japan
For a booklist on Education in Japan, go to this page.
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