A sharp decline in the number of Japanese students studying in the United States has U.S. government officials concerned that it may hamper relations between the two countries, reports The Japan Times. According to the Institute of International Education, the number of Japanese students who entered American universities fell 15 percent in 2009, to about 24,800, from 2008. In 2001 the total was around 47,000. President Obama and Prime Minister Naoto Kan have agreed to develop ways to increase exchanges between the countries, the newspaper reports.
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4 Responses to Fewer Japanese Students Choose U.S. for Overseas Study
sand6432 - April 4, 2011 at 1:00 pm
A similar critique may be found here: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03678-6.html.
Oswald - April 7, 2011 at 4:11 am
Good points. I have been on the ground in some volunteer projects (admittedly, only for short time periods and usually not in difficult places) – but it seems to me that a focus on amounts of money, including projects like RED, misses what is usually the biggest problem – non-corrupt use of that money in real projects.
It seems like the best aid is not scalable – small projects in local communities overseen by dedicated individuals do sometimes work, but the minute attempts are made to scale them they become at best inefficient, top heavy and bureaucratized, and at worse, corrupt on both ends – providing donor countries with highly paid cushy jobs with a veneer of benevolence, while on the ground in the receiving region often having negative unintended consequences & enabling corrupt regimes.
_perplexed_ - April 7, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Better that thousands die rather than see the mirage of corporate responsibility purchased too cheaply and so provide treatment but not empowerment to the afflicted?
sand6432 - April 11, 2011 at 11:28 am
My original posting got truncated. This is the full URL: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03678-6.html