Handbook of Higher Education in Japan

A 25-chapter book on Japan’s system of colleges and universities, from both historical and contemporary viewpoints and themes. The first in a new series of handbooks on Japanese studies.

Paul Snowden studied Modern and Medieval Languages at King’s College, Cambridge. Apart from the first five years of his career, he has lived and worked in Japan as a university teacher and administrator, and author or editor of numerous dictionaries, textbooks and other Japan-related works. He worked longest (30 years) at Waseda University, where he served two terms as Dean of the School of International Liberal Studies - the first foreign national to hold such a post at that university - and has been Emeritus Professor since 2014. His most recent post was Vice-President of Kyorin University. He retired in 2020 and now acts as a director for the Japan campus of Lakeland University, Wisconsin.