Not bad for a 23-year-old with a heavy course load (Kyodai's law faculty is one of the most rigorous in Japan).

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And expectations differ across those scholastic landscapes: A professor at a teaching-heavy liberal arts university, for example, might have four or five times the teaching load, course planning, and grading of one at a large research-oriented institution but less in the way of sweating late nights, winter breaks, and most summers over hitting research grant deadlines.

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