Minasuk/ September 18, 2015/ Uncategorized

Japan’s Education Ministry Says to Axe Social Science and Humanities | August 2015

A June 8 letter from Hakubun Shimomura, the Minister of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, to all of Japan’s 86 national
universities and all of the nation’s higher education organizations asks
them to take “active steps to abolish [social science and humanities]
organizations or to convert them to serve areas that better meet
society’s needs.”