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Japan Dumbs Down Its Universities
Dropping social sciences, humanities and law from the curriculum isn't smart.
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Most people who follow news from Japan will be paying attention to the economy, or possibly to the fist-fight that broke out in the Diet over security policy. But there was a huge and very worrying change in Japanese education policy that somehow hasn't received much public notice.
Essentially, Japan’s government just ordered all of the country’s public universities to end education in the social sciences, the humanities and law.