What percentage of all japanese people all over the world are straight A students and pursue higher education?
On the assumption that Japanese are normal humans like the rest of us–you will get push-back from a few Japanese who may still believe in their racial superiority and from uneducated Westerners who think all Asians are math-science whizzes who turn into engineers–you will find that their GPAs as students are roughly normally distributed (bell curve), albeit with the slight, universal upward bias owing to grade inflation. That means there are roughly as many smart Japanese as dumb Japanese. Having said this, Japanese high school graduation rates are definitely higher than those of Americans. Using 2003 data, Japanese graduation rates are almost 30% higher (93% vs. 72% in the US). Source: http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=1653 Japan has the 2nd or 3rd largest higher education system in the developed world with around 700 universities and almost 4 million students (after the US and India)
