ABSTRACT

First, exchange of knowledge all over the world will be even more all-comprising and faster than ever before. It is generally assumed that Japan is well prepared for that-not the least because Japan as a late-coming country in the process of industralisation and the corresponding modernisation emphasized the need to collect information from all parts of the world more strongly (at a time when the first modern universities were established) than most other of today’s most advanced societies (Nagai 1971).