Nooooo wrote:
Japanese kids who can't get into Japanese colleges after 2 years of failing entrance exams, then resort to studying English, take the TOEFL, apply to a US college. Los Angeles is the 1st choice because of Japanese-Americans, and most Japanese subsidiaries are headquartered there.
If you are implying that their colleges are as good or better than the U.S. because they couldn't pass the entrance exams but were still able to get accepted to a U.S. college, you are being very misleading. Passing the college entrance exam is, for all intents and purposes, graduating from college; those exams that don't give you any clue what kind of intelligence anyone has, but simply their capacity to remember things by rote (which is why they are terrible at English, because a language will simply not work that way).
I live in Japan and love Japanese people, but if they haven't been told how to do something, very specifically, there aren't many who are going to figure it out on their own deductive abilities. Don't get me wrong: Japanese are by no means dumb, but they have been taught that they need to be taught. That's their education system, period.