Fewer students spell trouble for women's universities in Japan

Institutions going coed, offering new tech majors in fight for survival

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Women head to their Coming of Age Day celebration ceremony in Tokyo in 2022: Women's universities are struggling to compete for Japan's ever-shrinking pool of students. © Reuters

MARIE SHIMOKAWA and HINATA MIURA, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Japan's demographic decline has emerged as an existential threat to the country's universities for women, forcing them to consider options ranging from accepting male students to offering new technology-oriented majors in their struggle to maintain enrollment.

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