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Muddling through Internationalization in the University of Tsukuba

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The Impact of Internationalization on Japanese Higher Education

Part of the book series: Global Perspectives on Higher Education ((GPHE,volume 22))

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As the idea of globalization and its myriad of economic, social, political, and cultural by-products unfolded throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the remnant of an era of internationalization caught up at the local layers as both, a challenge and response to transnational mobility.

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  1. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, International Christian University, Japan

    Grace Gonzalez Basurto

  2. Center for the Study of the Creative Economy, Doshisha University, Japan

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    John Mock

  2. University of Findlay, Ohio, USA

    Hiroaki Kawamura

  3. Akita International University, Akita, Japan

    Naeko Naganuma

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Basurto, G.G. (2016). Muddling through Internationalization in the University of Tsukuba. 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_9

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