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Originally Posted by Aerandor
Yes, I meant a master's degree from Tokyo University. MIT probably would be slightly better as it is one (of two) of the universities ranked higher in the world than Tokyo University (Source: globaluniversitiesranking.org). I plan on getting my doctorate eventually here in the U.S., so the name recognition isn't as huge of an issue. The reason I think I would still like to get one in Japan is I plan on continuing to use my (presumably by then) developed skills in Japanese language, culture and business in my career by either A. Working for an American company with ties to Japan or B. Working for a Japanese company with offices in the U.S. Believe me, I'd love to stay over in Japan for longer, I'm just betting my wife isn't going to completely fall in love with it to the extent that she would want to stay there indefinitely.
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As I have said on many previous threads, I have been a student of Japanese for 20 years, have lived in Japan, taught Japanese, translated thousands of pages of material from novels to technical manuals into English from Japanese, and I doubt I could sit in a room for 6 hours and pass a Japanese associate's degree college entrance exam, much less the exam for Tokyo University.
Unless you are applying through another university as an exchange program (assuming they have that) I think applying directly to Tokyo U. and passing the entrance exam is going to be a very very difficult challenge. Less than 10% of the students are foreigners....