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This chapter discusses three main issues in Japan viewed in comparison to the academic profession in Germany: the challenge of comparative research, comparative analysis of the academic profession, and the academic profession in Japan. The academics’ views and activities vary substantially in both countries according to their rank and institutional setting. These differences are so substantial in Germany that the idea of a single academic profession clearly could not work at all. In Japan, these differences are smaller, but clearly not negligible. As a consequence, one might suggest that comparative studies on the academic profession should not focus so much on differences between all academics of the respective countries, but should pay attention as well to the variations among the academics of each country.
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Teichler, U. (2015). The Academic Profession: A Comparison Between Japan and Germany. In: Arimoto, A., Cummings, W., Huang, F., Shin, J. (eds) The Changing Academic Profession in Japan. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09468-7_15
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