>>21962105Well, Japan does have the highest number of Nobel Laureates in Asia. The thing is, western education lags behind in science and math in primary and secondary education and then catches up (and in some cases, exceeds) in higher education.
As for what your old uni prof said, it's true for the most part.
Future employment can go two ways:
>study hard, graduate, then get a job like what western uni grads would do>join club/circle and your senpai would give you recommendations/referrals to potential employersI think most students go the second route because, jap uni students see college/uni as more of a well-deserved break after grueling years of high school and then university entrance exams (and probably it's more socially fulfilling) like
>>21964606 said, and because they can do fuck all and fail, then at the end of the semester ask to just submit a report in order to pass anyway.
There is no policy for it, but the professor will usually allow them to do it because they don't give a fuck either.
Of course, there are the students that really want to learn and on top of joining clubs/circles, they join seminars and labs, and they get tons of attention from their professors who are just elated that someone is showing genuine interest, but those are the minority.
t. was a visiting professor in TUT
