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The four year study that is the basis of all of this material led those of us who were members of the original Ministry of Education grant application (see Introduction) and the other writers who joined us later in a variety of different directions, based on our own interests, as well as the central issue, the impact of international universities on their local communities.
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Mock, J. (2016). Smart City—Stupid Countryside. In: Mock, J., Kawamura, H., Naganuma, N. (eds) The Impact of Internationalization on Japanese Higher Education. Global Perspectives on Higher Education, vol 22. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-169-4_12
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