Free Japan's universities

By Stefanie Botelho. Here is the good news: Japan’s national universities are not, in fact, getting rid of social sciences and humanities. Earlier this year, it looked as if Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (or MEXT for short) told public schools to cease education in these areas. When I spoke to MEXT officials this fall in Tokyo, they were eager to clarify that this wasn’t what they had ordered. More...