Jeremy Breaden lectures in Japanese and Asian Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Australia. His research focuses on education and employment systems in contemporary Japan and East Asia. His previous works include The Organisational Dynamics of University Reform in Japan (2013) and Articulating Asia in Japanese Higher Education (2018).
Roger Goodman is Nissan Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford. His previous publications include Japan's 'International Youth' (1990), Children of the Japanese State (2000), Family and Social Policy in Japan (2002), and A Sociology of Japanese Youth (2011).

• Introduction: The 'Puzzle' of Japan's Resilient Private Universities


• 1: The Predicted Implosion of Japan's Private Higher Education System


• 2: Japanese Private Universities in Comparative Perspective


• 3: A University under Fire: A Short Ethnography of MGU 1992-2007


• 4: MGU 2008-2018: The Law School and Other Reforms


• 5: The Resilience of Japan's Private Universities


• 6: Private Universities as Family Business

In Japan, almost 80% of university students attend private institutions, up to 40% of which are family businesses. This book offers a detailed historical, sociological, and ethnographic analysis of this important category of private university.