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The Japanese education system is extremely competitive. The ways in which Japanese students go about educating their children and students is not similar to the United States. To get into the elite universities is very competitive and competition starts at a very young age. Because of all this competition Japanese students are much more stressed than American students. There is so muc0h competition in the school program that even the parents get involved. There are only eighty one state supported universities, which are the elite universities, in which only twenty percent of the students can be selected combined (Christopher 80). Even though the parents do get very involved with their child’s education, the student has to get into these universities without their parents’ aid. They have to take the entrance exam from which the best are selected. Getting into one of the top eight one State Universities is a major task and requires a lot of hard work from kindergarten. The students of the Japanese education system go to school approximately from eight-thirty in the morning to four o’clock in the afternoon (Cooper EBSCO). School is not just the five weekdays but also half a day on Saturday (Christopher 87). They go