Akiyoshi Yonezawa

• Ph.D
• Professor (Full) at Tohoku University

Fulll text is available at https://qir.kyushu-u.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2324/10652 日本教育社会学会第44回大会, 1992年10月(岡山大学), Ⅲ-5部会 産業と教育

日本教育社会学会第45回大会, 1993年10月(日本女子大学), I-4部会 大学と職業

日本教育社会学会第46回大会, 1994年10月(椙山女学園大学), Ⅱ-4部会 大学と就職

This paper analyses the effects of the university employment guidance system on the opportunities for new graduates in the labor market, The data were taken from a complete survey conducted on employment guidance and equivalent organizations in all universities. Our analysis focused on the comparison between national and private universities. The e...

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This chapter examines the history, current status, and future prospects of universities in Japan through a sociological examination of the academic profession. Studies on the academic profession have always been a key topic of higher education research in Japan, where sociologists assumed a crucial role in theorization and positive research. The fo...

This study examines the historical, current, and future challenges of higher education research in Japan within a global context and discusses future perspectives. Japanese higher education research has been strongly influenced by the international academic community. At the same time, higher education researchers in Japan have participated in inte...

Higher education research in Asia is undergoing significant changes, but limited yet in terms of research community, active researchers, research themes and methodologies. This chapter introduces the book Researching Higher Education in Asia: History, Development and Future, which aims to explore the evolution of higher education research as a fiel...

The book demonstrates the rapid evolution of higher education research in most Asian countries, particularly in East Asia, in terms of both the number of researchers and publications and the diversity of research themes and methodologies. However, higher education research in some countries in Asia is comparatively underdeveloped, underlying an ine...

This book discusses higher education research as a field of study in Asia. It traces the evolution of research in the field of higher education in several Asian countries, and shares ideas about the evolving higher education research communities in Asia. It also identifies common and dissimilar challenges across national communities, providing rese...

The authors analyze the profile and dynamism of the Japanese higher education system in comparison with the higher education systems of other East Asian countries, with special reference to East–West hybrid patterns. The authors reflect on the development and transformation of Japanese higher education, especially its interaction with neighboring h...

div class="page" title="Page 31"> The author analyzes the background of the recent disputes on the relevance of humanities and social sciences at national public universities in Japan. Based on the analysis, several themes emerge, including long term governmental policies to prioritize STEM fields, and the difficulties of identifying the values of...

Although the relationship between cities and universities is a commonly discussed topic, the so-called world-class universities and global cities in East Asia do not always fit into one single cosmopolitan model. Focusing on the case of Tokyo and Japan, the authors of this chapter examine the mobility patterns, academic and social lives, and gender...

Japan achieved mass higher education very early even compared to other developed countries. The share of youth enrolled in higher education exceeded 15% in 1963, 50% by 1978, and was 79.8% in 2016. These data include enrollments in the newly established non-university, postsecondary sector, according to the School Basic Survey that the Ministry of...

The author discusses the future prospects of East Asian higher education in the following manner. First, the author reflects on the history of East Asian universities in relation to knowledge transfer through translation into their own languages and identifies the current knowledge environments surrounding these universities in the era of globaliza...

This chapter examines the values, roles and challenges of liberal arts education in East Asia and the historical and contemporary influences that have led to the diverse understandings of liberal arts education in the region. Drawing examples from the previous chapters, it also identifies and analyzes the common features and challenges in this form...

The academic profession contributes to shaping the capacity and identity of higher education systems. In East and Southeast Asia, there is a need for further discussion on the regional identity characteristics of the academic profession to account for its multiple origins and national and international dimensions. Data from two large-scale comparat...

The internationalization of higher education is an important policy issue in many countries, and Japan is no exception. A widely regarded definition of the internationalization of higher education is “the process of integrating an international, intercultural, or global dimension into the purpose, functions, or delivery” of higher education (Knight...

World-class research and education are recognized as essential channels for participating in a globalized knowledge society. The construction of world-class or global research universities has been pursued by governments and top (mostly flagship) universities in a variety of emerging economies (Salmi, 2009; Altbach & Salmi, 2011; Shin & Kehm, 2013)...

This study examines the historical, current, and future challenges of higher education research in Japan within a global context. Japanese higher education research has been strongly influenced by the international academic community. At the same time, higher education researchers in Japan have participated in international projects, and Japan has...

Studies of higher education by scholars based in Asia have been growing in volume, following worldwide trends. To a large extent, this growth has been driven by East Asian countries, but little is known about the characteristics of the contribution of these countries. This study analyses their overall and specific contribution. The paper concludes...

p>Thirty-seven Japanese universities were selected as Japan’s “Top Global University” project, a governmental funding initiative in September, 2014. This project aims at promoting universities’ international recognition and competitiveness by internationalizing and conducting university reforms on various aspects of the university operation. After...

In order to strengthen their international presence, universities pursuing a world-class status are striving to increase their internationalization. Internationalization implies a transformation of university governance, especially for universities in a non-English-speaking system such as Japan’s. This paper examines the challenges of international...

Japan was one of the first countries in East Asia to develop a mass higher education system. However, in the last couple of decades, Japanese universities have experienced drastic reform (Amano and Poole 2005; Goodman, Kariya, and Taylor 2013). In the reformation process, the transformation of the Japanese academic labor market to a more open and c...

In the twentieth century, we observed an expansion of higher education systems, first as tools for colonization and then for decolonization. Global and regional collaboration in higher education has been strongly linked to the emergence of new nation states, the rapid progress of internationalization, and the emergence of regional dimensions of hig...

Although the relationship between cities and universities is a commonly discussed topic, the so-called ‘world class universities’ and ‘global cities’ in East Asia do not always fit into one single cosmopolitan model. Focusing on the case of Tokyo and Japan, the authors of this paper examine the mobility patterns, academic and social lives, and gend...

The relationship between demographic change and investment in education is one of the topics that has attracted considerable attention from both policymakers and experts. Extended education increases the social and private costs of raising children, and has been considered a major factor in the decline of birth rates. At the same time, the growing...

The role of universities is increasing with the rapid growth of the knowledge economy across the world. At the same time, universities are also being called upon to change their governance and management structures in order to transform themselves into the core sector of the globally competitive knowledge industry. Salmi (2008) suggests that “world...

This chapter provides an overview the theoretical dynamics and actual approaches towards the emergence of international dimensions in East Asian higher education . In discussing higher educational reforms in a dynamically changing East Asian region, the authors describe how the steadily raising international profile of Asian universities is accompa...

While universities in developing countries have long been said to be “dependent” on their counterparts in developed countries, recent years have seen dramatic expansion and improvements in the higher education sector in Southeast Asia. Case studies on the reforms of the doctoral programs at six major universities in Southeast Asian region reveal th...

This chapter examines the role of support and control of private universities in the process of realizing mass higher education in Japan from the 1960s. In so doing, he tries to identify the actual meaning of educational policy borrowings in the development process of a higher education system. This chapter focuses on the establishment of elite pri...

The dominant role of Kyoju-kai (the professoriate) in university governance in Japan is now facing a critical examination as part of university reforms in response to global competition. What are the determinants of the characteristics of participation in university governance by individual faculty members? In what way does the organizational struc...

Over the past decade, the term “world-class,” which relates to how a university develops its capacity to compete in the global higher education marketplace, has been widely used. Many scholars have stated that world-class universities should exhibit qualities such as excellence in research and teaching, excellent professors, talented students, acad...

In East Asia, higher education has relied heavily on private and marketized forces in its rapid development process.nbsp; At the same time, state governments have introduced strong initiatives especially in upgrading the global positioning of their flagship universities through their pursuit of international competitiveness.nbsp; Currently, these w...

This study analyzes the impact of intra-sectoral mobility of academics on research productivity and R&D information exchange dynamics in Japan. The analysis shows intra-sectoral mobility impacting positively both research productivity and information exchange dynamics, but that this effect—except for information exchange with peers based abroad—has...

The government and top universities in Japan have struggled to establish the country’s status of being a world leader in higher education. This chapter will examine the ideas and actual implementation of world-class university policies in Japan, both at the national policy level and at the university level. At the national policy level, government...

There are various approaches to the review of university internationalisation. At the global level, the International Association of Universities (IAU), a non-governmental organisation based at UNESCO, carried out an international survey by asking universities around the world about their priorities and opinions on international activities (Knight,...

This article examines the Japanese response in terms of innovation capacity and entrepreneurship enhancement under the ever-changing economic environment. Particular focus would go to the interactions among government, industry and universities in the national innovation system at a macro level, and entrepreneurship education at the institutional l...

Since the beginning of 1990s, Japan’s higher education system has struggled amidst continuous demographic decline of the population of university-age youth, and is expected to face an acceleration of this decline after 2020. Adding to the saturation of the domestic youth student market in higher education, the expected shrinkage of the overall cons...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the recent evolution of the policy debate over the internationalization of Japanese higher education in times of particularly strong financial constraint, with reference also made to trends in the higher education systems of neighboring Asian countries. The authors describe the de facto formation of...

In March 2011, eastern Japan was struck by the largest earthquake and tsunami on national record, triggering an ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plants. Many of the cities and institutions directly impacted by this triple-faceted event have managed to achieve remarkable recovery in a very short time. However, confidence and trust in th...

Throughout the world the internationalization of higher education has assumed a key position on domestic policy agendas, not only for educational and scientific reasons but also increasingly due to socio-economic considerations. National contexts are still influential in the actual process of internationalization. In the case of Japan , in addition...

This study analyses why and how academic inbreeding as a recruitment practice continues to prevail in Japan, a country with a mature higher education system, where high rates of academic inbreeding endure in most of the research-oriented universities in spite of several higher education reforms. Based on a qualitative analysis, we disclose three ch...

Fostering “world-class” universities is now a clearly set national goal for many countries around the globe (Sadlak and Liu, 2009). In response to requests from a wide variety of countries, Salmi (2009) identified three prerequisites for the establishment of world–class universities: (1) concentration of talent, (2) abundant funding and (3) appropr...

This article examines the ongoing struggle of leading Japanese universities to elevate their positions in world rankings, and the perceived necessity of Japanese higher education to internationalize in order to achieve more favourable international recognition. The author discusses structural difficulties inherent in Japanese universities in establ...

To promote sustainable development within the global knowledge-based society, the Japanese government is urging the nation's higher education institutions to internationalize. Although a select number of Japanese universities are highly regarded in world university rankings, many observers argue that the majority of Japanese higher education instit...

This chapter looks at the future of higher education policy in Japan and Korea in light of the rapid demographic changes, characterised by ageing populations, low birth rates, and the saturation of the higher education markets following the completion of universal higher education in the two countries. This comparative analysis of Japan and Korea p...

Ce chapitre se penche sur l’avenir de la politique de l’enseignement supérieur au Japon et en Corée, au vu d’une évolution démographique rapide qui se caractérise par une population vieillissante, un taux de natalité bas et la saturation des marchés de l’enseignement supérieur suite au succès de la politique d’enseignement supérieur universel dans...

Japanese universities are currently experiencing rapid development in quality assessment and assurance activities. In 2004, the national government introduced corporate-style governance into national universities, accompanied by a new evaluation scheme to be carried out by both a governmental committee and a national agency called the National Inst...

This article examines the contemporary tasks of Japanese higher education, especially focusing on the engineering education. The author points out the significant role of international cooperation in engineering education to the national development of partner countries. At the same time, the collaboration should be transformed into more horizontal...

In this paper, the author tries to set up the framework for understanding the qualitative change of the nature of national policies for higher education through the increasing aspects as ‘industry’ in universities and other higher education sector. Based on this framework, the author analyses, comparatively, the national policies for higher educati...

Higher education has played an important role in the social and economic development of modern-day Japan. This chapter will discuss a small handful of key themes that contribute to our understanding of the country’s higher education system, including access and expansion, finance, privatization, internationalization and quality assurance. Of these,...

The increasing pace and scope of global structural change has left Japanese flagship universities at a crossroads. Reflecting upon historical trends, current policy changes and respective institutional strategies for global marketing among Japanese top research universities, the author discusses possible future directions for these institutions and...

This chapter introduces an overview of quality assurance systems for higher education in Japan, including the requirements for establishing new educational programmes. It also provides information on the recent introduction of third-party evaluation of higher education institutions on a continual basis. Furthermore, it refers to Japan's approach to...

Partout, chercheurs et pouvoirs publics rêvent de voir se mettre en place des universités « de niveau mondial ». Mais la création de tels établissements ou le maintien de leur statut est chose malaisée, même dans les pays industrialisés développés. Les gouvernements nationaux privilégient donc généralement dans les investissements financiers leurs...

The realization of world-class universities is a dream of every researcher and national government. However, making them and maintaining their status is difficult even in highly developed industrial countries. Consequently, national governments tend to concentrate financial investment in their top universities, usually with the support of leading m...

This paper examines current changes in higher education governance in Japan, linking these with the national strategy in the light of globalisation forces. First, the author describes Japan's social economy that has heavily relied on manufacturing industry and the strong desire for internationalisation. Second, activities in the internationalisatio...

The realization of world-class universities is a dream of every researcher and national government. However, making them and maintaining their status is difficult even in highly developed industrial countries. Consequently, national governments tend to concentrate financial investment in their top universities, usually with the support of leading m...

Japan has a highly diversified mass higher education system, consisting mainly of private institutions. In their highly developed and matured "market", higher education institutions have been ranked in terms of selectivity for many years. However, the university rankings that began in the 1990s took a different approach, that is, showing multiple r...

This article analyzes thedevelopment of the quality assurance system andchanges in market forces in higher education inJapan. First, the article focuses on thefunction and impact of self-monitoring andself-evaluation systems as unique processesoriented towards decentralization and internalreflection. Second, the changes in marketforces in higher ed...

The decentralisation of educational administration in Indonesia has recently been the focus of much interest throughout the Asia-Pacific region. With its massive population and multi-ethnic social background, Indonesia serves as an interesting example when considering the real impact of decentralized systems on the financing of Junior Secondary Edu...

Analyzes current debate on changes in Japan's higher education system which involve "corporatizing" all national universities and introducing performance-based contractual funding. Suggests that these changes may be part of a complex game of struggle for control. (EV)