Family-Run Universities in Japan
Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992-2030
Jeremy Breaden and Roger Goodman
Reviews and Awards
"The authors give a thorough historical overview of Japanese private university management and use statistical data to get to the heart of the problem." -- Hirochika Nakamaki, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan, Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute
"This book is much more than its rather prosaic title. It is a comprehensive and illuminating analysis of private higher education in Japan and worldwide, a focus on the understudied phenomenon of family-owned universities in Japan, a case study of Japanese family-owned university, and a discussion of the likely future of Japanese private higher education. All of this is cogently argued, engagingly written, and packaged into a 223 page volume." -- Philip Altbach, Boston College, USA, Japanese Studies
"The authors' main argument that the resilience of family-run universities plays a significant role especially in the face of the many challenges may meet the demand of family-run universities in Asia-Pacific region because the authors have successfully integrated comparative perspectives of family business both in Japan and other regions, and thus made generalization of the core concept of the strength of family-run universities, stemmed from the inbuilt resilience." -- Kazuhito Obara , Asia Pacific Journal of Education
"Overall, Family-Run Universities in Japan is well-written, exceptionally researched, and provides much food for thought. It offers a wealth of data, insights, and micro-level theorizations that will provide numerous jumping off points for further study in a range of different fields." -- Christopher D. Hammond, Higher Education
"An enormously profound picture of the Japanese higher education system ... An enormous wealth of information on higher education and society in a single country -- discussed as well as being not just typical for a single country -- is well collected and convincingly presented with a lesson: a specific social phenomenon can be understood well, if one is ready for the adventure of getting to know in detail the enormous complexity of conditions." -- Ulrich Teichler, Contemporary Japan
"It offers a wealth of data, insights, and micro-level theorizations that will provide numerous jumping off points for further study in a range of different fields." -- Christopher D. Hammond, Aoyama Gakuin University, Higher Education (2021) 82:233–235