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Clampdown on tertiary education is worrisome

An onslaught on humanities and social sciences by the Ministry of Education threatens to undermine the competitiveness of Japan’s economy. Encouragingly, the country’s leading universities have refused to obey the government’s diktat to close these departments.

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