Still Foreign After All These Years.

The article looks at how Japanese universities continue to feel unwelcoming to many outsiders. The School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University, Japan's top private university, offers a diverse curriculum taught in English to students who must spend a year abroad to graduate. According to the article, the appointment of Paul Snowden as the dean of Waseda, which is the highest position reached by a non-Japanese at Waseda, was considered highly unusual. Most of the foreigners working in higher education in Japan work as low-level English-language teachers on short-term contracts. According to Bruce Stronach, an American and the president of Yokohama City University, Japanese universities are not doing well, and one reason is because the education students are getting is homogenous.