​Preface.- Prologue: The Changing Academic Profession in Japan: its past and present. Akira Arimoto.- 1. Higher Education Policy and Academic Profession. Yoshimasa Kano.- 2. Mobility. Atsunori Yamanoi.- 3. Academic Funding and Allocation of Research Money. Akihiro Asonuma.- 4. Changes in University Teachers' View towards Students: Impact of Universalization. Naoyuki Ogata.-- 5. Gender Bias: what has changed for Female Academics? Naomi Kimoto.- 6. Governance, Administration and Management. Masashi Fujimura.- 7. Labor Conditions. Hirotaka Nanbu and Tomomi Amano. 8. Working Time and Personal Strain. Yusuke Hasegawa.- 9. Research Productivity: Tsukasa Daizen.- 10. Teaching and Research in the Academic Profession: Nexus and Conflict. Hideto Fukudome.- 11. Academic Profession and Evaluation. Masataka Murasawa.- 12. Internationalization. Futao Huang.- 13. Higher Education and Society. Hirotoshi Yamasaki. 14. The Academic Profession: A Comparison between Japan and Germany. Ulrich Teichler.- 15. The Invisible Academy: A U.S. Perspective on The Japanese Academic Profession. William K. Cummings.- 16. Similar but Different Worlds: A Korean Perspective on The Japanese Academic Profession. Jung C. Shin.- Epilogue Perspective of the Academic Profession. Akira Arimoto.