February 16, 2007

Still Foreign After All These Years

By DAVID MCNEILL

Japanese universities continue to feel unwelcoming to many outsiders

One way of taking the educational pulse of Japan is to visit the School of International Liberal Studies here at Waseda University. Higher education seems cosmopolitan and vibrant at the school, with a faculty that is 30 percent foreign — drawn from a dozen nationalities — offering a diverse curriculum taught in English to students who must spend a year abroad to graduate. And the dean is

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