Who should pay for higher education in Japan?

I personally believe that all health care and education should be free. You can raise taxes to make sure that enough gets spent that HC and EDU are of the highest quality. But I think the backbone of any healthy society is free and immediate access to these 2 services.

There isn’t really such a thing as free education as the student has to be supported whilst studying, we have if the tuition is free.

The US model is heavily weighted to self funding and also enables debt to be socially acceptable at a young age.

Japan is most certainly expensive.

However, most students do some job to enable themselves to buy some means of transport or a foreign holiday.

Ive seen students in Japan so relaxed having to repeat years in order to graduate.

If the Higher Education Degree leads to a job in high demand than the state should pay, but if its a degree that leads to a job in low demand then the individual should pay up front for the degree.

Many universities in Japan (hard to get in, but easy to graduate) are the time to relax and "senioritis"

Kids are expensive... poor people should be discouraged from having them.