The fight over liberal arts education in Japan. The humanities and liberal arts are under pressure from the government, but have allies in the business community.

From the article:

the national government wants to focus national resources for higher education on fields that nourish students’ skills that are immediately adaptable to the needs of the labor market, leaving humanities education to institutions of other types—especially private institutions, which rely more heavily on tuition. In other words, the national government no longer wants to spend taxpayers’ money on such individual luxuries as higher education in the humanities.