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Amano-Ito, Yuko – Journal of Research Administration, 2021
Japan's operating budget for its national universities has been reduced since 2004 year by year, leaving a tight competition among universities in securing research funding. Urban universities with several prominent researchers can operate by securing competitive funding, joint research with companies, and donations, whereas small rural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Financial Support, Medical Schools, Rural Schools
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Yonezawa, Akiyoshi; Hammond, Christopher D.; Brotherhood, Thomas; Kitamura, Miwako; Kitagawa, Fumi – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2020
This paper examines shifts in the knowledge production policy agenda at Japanese research universities -- a transition from discipline-based academic tradition towards interdisciplinary forms of knowledge production -- through a case study of a leading interdisciplinary research institute. We examine this transition through the case of Tohoku…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Natural Disasters, Research Universities