Various schools and universities serve

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Primary and secondary schools

Publicly run kindergartens,

elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...

s (years 1 through 6), and

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s (7 through 9) are operated by local wards or municipal offices. Public

high school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., ...

s in Tokyo are run by the

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and are called "Metropolitan High Schools". Tokyo also has many private schools from kindergarten through high school. :ja:東京都高等学校一覧

Tertiary education

is home to many public and private universities, including the

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, the most prestigious university in Japan.

Rankings

References

The EMP Professional Ranking of World Universities
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(retrieved December 16, 2007)
Webometrics
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QS Top Universities: Top 400 universities in the THES - QS World University Rankings 2007
(retrieved December 16, 2007)

*College Quality and Earnings in the Japanese Labor Market. Hiroshi Ono. SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No 395 (Revised March 11, 2003). *Educational Credentials and Promotion Chances in Japanese and American Organizations. Hiroshi Ishida, Seymour Spilerman & Kuo-Hsien Su. American Sociological Review, Vol 62, No 6 (Dec., 1997), pp. 866–882. *"Gakureki shakai kasetsu no kento" (Examining the educational credentialism hypothesis). Bunshiro Ando. In Kenichi Tominaga, ed., Nihon no Kaiso Kozo (1994) University of Tokyo Press, pp. 275–292. *A Review of Higher Education Reform in Modern Japan. Paul Doyon. ''Higher Education,'' Vol. 41, No. 4 (Jun., 2001), pp. 443–470. *Japan's Top 30 Universities. William Currie. International Higher Education, Winter 200

*Engineering Tasks for the New Century: Japanese and U.S. Perspectives (1999) Office of International Affair
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Primary and secondary schools

Tertiary education

Rankings

See also

References

Further reading