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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 Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) carries out every year.
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Yonezawa, A., Inenaga, Y. (2017). The Consequences of Market-Based Mass Postsecondary Education: Japan’s Challenges. In: Altbach, P.G., Reisberg, L., Wit, H.d. (eds) Responding to Massification. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-083-7_8
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