EducationFewer students spell trouble for women's universities in Japan
Institutions going coed, offering new tech majors in fight for survival
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.