March 23, 2001
Foreign Lecturers Bear the Brunt of Budget Pain at Japanese Universities
Some turn reluctantly to the courts to fight ousters, winning support from Japanese citizens
Foreign instructors at Japanese universities are on the front line of moves by universities to reduce the size of their faculties in the face of shrinking enrollments.
In each of the past five years, the number of 18-year-olds in Japan has decreased by approximately 2 million, and this trend is expected to continue, though on a lesser scale, until 2008, due to a declining
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