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Nature 395, 730 (22 October 1998) | doi:10.1038/27269
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Japan's universities resist plan for greater autonomy
Asako Saegusa
A bid by the Japanese government to transform national universities into semi-autonomous institutions is meeting strong resistance both from leading academics and from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Monbusho). Last December, a proposal to change the status of the nation's two leading universities — Tokyo University and Kyoto University — was omitted from the final version of the government's administrative reform plan (see Nature 389, 897; 1997).
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