Japanese Education and Education Reform by Goodman, R

The Why, What and How of Educational Reform in Japan by Goodman, R

Reimagining Self/Other: 'catch-up' across Japan's three great education reforms by Kariya, T, Rappleye, J

W(h)ither the Japanese University? An Introduction to the 2004 Higher Education Reforms in Japan by Goodman, R

Market Competition, Demographic Change and Educational Reform: The Problems Confronting Japan’s Private Universities in a Period of Contraction by Goodman, R, Yonezawa, A

Education and social disparities in Japan by Kariya, T

“…This tension-laden equality succeeded to some extent in reducing and justifying disparities in education in Japan’s catch-up modernization process. Recent education reforms have purported to throw off the yoke of a system driven by a desire to catch up with advanced Western countries, which is hereafter called “the catch-up type of education.” …”