1. Note by the Coordinating Editor

   Legacy Pages: 123 - 123

2. Structural changes in Japan's higher education system-from a planning to a market model

   • Ikuo Amano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 139

3. Policy issue in Japanese higher education

   • Kazuyuki Kitamura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 150

4. The structure of university administration in Japan

   • Hitoshi Osaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 163

5. Efficiency and equity in Japanese higher education

   • Motohisa Kaneko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 181

6. The self-activating entrance examination system – its hidden agenda and its correspondence with the Japanese “salary man”

   • Yo Takeuchi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 198

7. Higher education and employment

   • Masakazu Yano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 214

8. Women in higher education

   • Masako Amano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 235

9. Japanese graduate education and its problems

   • Morikazu Ushiogi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 244

10. The research function of universities in Japan

    • Shigeru Nakayama
    • Morris F. Low

    OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 258

11. Internationalization of Japanese higher education in the 1980‘s and early 1990‘s

    • Toru Umakoshi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 273

12. Higher education in Japan: A view from outside

    • Ulrich Teichler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 298