Better Know a Higher Ed System: Japan (3)

By Alex Usher. Japan is one of the world’s most hierarchical societies.  You could have a pretty good argument about whether or not this is an artefact of the Tokugawa bakufu of the 17^th century or if it goes back to the Kamakura regime of the 12^th – 14^th centuries, but either way, it’s been that way a long-time.  It’s in the language, the culture, the politics – pretty much everywhere.  And so, too, in the higher education system. More...