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I don't like bursting bubbles, but it is hard even for a Japanese person to make it to high school. High school in Japan is pretty much the equivalent of the first two years in college anywhere else.
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I have to disagree. I have been in Japan for 5 years now, and the only people I know who did not complete high school are now adults, 40-50 years old or so I would say. When these people were growing up Japan was still recovering from the war, so they are a special case.
I tried to find some good data, but the closest I could find is this... from 1999.
International Education Indicators
Figure 1. Upper secondary school graduation rates, by sex and country: 1999
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in Japan, the overall graduation rate was 95, but the rate for entry into higher academic education was 69.
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Which means that people graduate high school easily, but have trouble getting into college.
This is changing now though, for sure, with the aging society it is easier than ever to get into a university. In fact some universities are going bankrupt because there are not enough young people to fill the seats.