Rethinking Perspectives on Educational "Exchanges with Japan

Abstract

U.S.-Japan student exchanges provide a valuable window through which to view the changing nature of cross-national student flows in higher education ad part of broader changes in international education. The author explored dome ways in which the current organization and emphases of international education in the United Stated were shaped by concerns and funding patterns associated with national interest during the Cold War and a discussion of how these historical roots and recent trends generate diverse perspectives on U.S. -Japan student flows. He ends by suggesting dome approaches to the `problem "of the asymmetry in flows that may be helpful to those involved in or concerned with this phenomenon.