Review
As described by Mr. Cutts . . . [the University of Tokyo] is an "ivory basement," a place of little intellectual inquiry, and it is driving the entire country to ruin. It suffers from an ossified faculty structure and from students who arrive exhausted after their grueling studies in high school. . . . Much of An Empire of Schools is written in that sort of overheated style, and Mr. Cutts has a habit of making sweeping generalizations without backing them up with evidence. -- The New York Times Book Review, Steven R. Weisman
