The Financing of Higher Education in Japan

Academic Excellence Initiatives in Japan: Can a Series of Government Interventions Make a Difference?

“…This scenario would be critically harmful, as the Japa nese academic community as a whole would lose access to frontier knowledge. The increased share of project-and performance-based funding within the total government funding increased the disparity in funding opportunities among universities-generally in favor of the limited number of top research universities (Fukui 2021a).…”