1 Correction to: Jpn J Stat Data Sci (2018) 1:109–116 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42081-018-0005-7

The article “A new era of statistics and data science education in Japanese universities” written by Akimichi Takemura was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 14th May 2018 without open access.

With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 18th October to © The Author(s) 2018 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

The original article has been corrected.