Globally, private universities enrol one in three of all higher education students. In Japan, which has the second largest higher education system in the world

In Japan, almost 80% of university students attend private institutions, up to 40% of which are family businesses. This book offers a detailed historical, socio

Although an entirely unknown part of higher education worldwide, there are literally hundreds of universities that are owned/managed by families around the worl

This book proposes a new way to approach comparative international development by focusing on time and timing in economic and social development. The UK industr

Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed f