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05 Distance ESTABLISHMENT
Education Correspondence University and
Distance Higher Education in Japanese
for Higher Educational System
Education Until now, lifelong learning has been
considered to be the farthest from higher
and Lifelong education within Japan’s education system.
One reason for this could be that lifelong
Learning in learning has traditionally been viewed as
Japan a continuation of social schooling, and
as “leisure learning” or “time killing” for
persons with too much free time. But the
greater reason lies with the higher education
institutions’ systems that were not structured
to sufficiently meet the needs of lifelong
Masaya Iwanaga and learners. Rather, they were well known to be
Tsuneo Yamada extremely closed systems for adult learners.
The Open University of Japan Early universities were open to anybody
who needed or wanted to learn for as long
and as much as they required, and they
were not restricted to a specific age range.
As modernization progressed, this form
was gradually replaced by standardized
