ABSTRACT
After World War II under the American occupation, Japan changed her educational system to follow the American model and made access to higher education far easier than it had been before the war, when only a small percentage of students gained entry into the university and college. Now, more than one-third of Japanese students go oh to the university or college. The exact advancement rate to higher education in Japan in 1991 was 38.2 percent, compared with 44.1 in the United States (1989); 43.6 percent in France (1990); 29.9 percent in Germany (1989); and 29.9 percent in Great Britain (1989). Japan’s rate of advancement to higher education is one of the highest of the industrialized countries.
