Why the Tokyo University Is Becoming a Rational Alternative to the Anglosphere for Chinese Elites

I started thinking about this after watching a Japanese YouTube video, 「日本人が知らない、東大院生の2割が中国人の理由」 . Its starting point is simple: Why are so many Chinese students now studying at the University of Tokyo? And especially: Why are they so heavily concentrated in graduate school? The video’s answer is interesting because it