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For at least 30 years, internationalizing education has been a major concern of Japanese educational policy makers, politicians, and the media. At the university level major reforms have focused on increasing student exchange through study abroad programs. Between the early 1980s and mid-1990s, the numbers of students studying abroad doubled (Umakoshi, 1997).
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Fukuzawa, R.E. (2016). English Proficiency and Internationalization Among Japanese University Students. In: Mock, J., Kawamura, H., Naganuma, N. (eds) The Impact of Internationalization on Japanese Higher Education. Global Perspectives on Higher Education, vol 22. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-169-4_4
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