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It is essential that universities, graduate schools, junior colleges, colleges of technology, and professional training colleges respond collectively to society's varied needs for higher education by utilizing their individual characteristics. In addition, even institutions of the same type should endeavor to follow individualized paths of development. This requires clarification of the philosophies and aims of individual universities and other institutions of higher education through expanded debate.

To provide a motivated and diverse student body with varied learning opportunities according to their individual attributes and interests, it is necessary to expand interaction among institutions. This may also entail considering the provision of increased flexibility in the relevant systems.

>From now on, it will be increasingly important to view higher education as a single system in which individual universities and other institutions interact while carrying out diverse and individualized educational and research activities so that these institutions as a whole can meet society's expectations and raise the standard of education and research.