Modernization and Implications of Japanese Higher Education towards 2040

The model of Japanese higher education modernization is the typical "backward and exogenous type". This model was developed on the basis of the Modern Binary Hierarchical pyramid system of higher education. It has gone through four stages:modern exploration, post -war transformation, rapid development, and reform and improvement. Different from other backward countries, Japan's modernization process was dominated by the central government, with the characteristics of a combination of from passive reform to active development, Westernization and Japanization. Towards 2040, higher education in Japan pays more attention to the quality of higher education, internationalization, and university-state-local relations. The evolutionary characteristics and trends of Japanese higher education modernization shed light on the modernization of Chinese higher education.