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...Rounds. Asahi's exam was typical. Some 900 candidates turned out at Tokyo's Keio University to compete for about 30 openings. Many were trained in law, engineering, medicine and other fields, but all preferred journalism. "Curing sick people is meaningful," said a young medical student, "but reporting is just as valuable because it is treating the sickness of society...
...multiversity. Nihon has 75,500 students, second only to the Sorbonne as the largest single-campus university in the world-but only 5,400 teachers. Equally understaffed are such colossi as Waseda (39,782 students), Meiji (32,584), Chuo (29 774), Hosei (27,708) and Keio...
...worthwhile, since a university degree represents guaranteed access to a high-paying job. Anyone who graduates from Tokyo University has easy entry to any of the professions, biggest corporations or the top rungs of government. Seven of Japan's past ten Prime Ministers had degrees from Tokyo U. Keio students, more affluent than most, have inside tracks to good industrial and business posts. Waseda's tough-minded, politically oriented students tend to get first crack at jobs in journalism, while Hitotsubashi is strong on languages and produces many economists. Also good in language-training are Jesuit-run Sophia...
...plight of the ronin-and passes the blame on to Japanese social rigidity. The country has 72 states and 188 private colleges, but the ronin aspire chiefly to get into only four of them: the state universities of Tokyo and Kyoto and the two leading private universities, Waseda and Keio. Because old school ties at these colleges are so strong-stronger than in the U.S.'s Ivy League and even than at England's Oxford and Cambridge-graduation from one of the four is a ticket of admission to good jobs in government and industry...
Sanzo Nozaka, 68, chairman of the Japanese Communist Party. A trim, dapper theoretician who learned his Marxism in Moscow, Nozaka was educated at Tokyo's Keio University, joined the Reds during a 1920 visit to Britain, where he studied under Clement Attlee at the London School of Economics. Deported, he returned to Japan and was in and out of jail until 1931, when he fled to Russia with his wife and became an executive member of the Comintern. In 1943. Nozaka was sent to join Mao Tse-tung in the Yenan caves as an adviser...