Only two Japanese universities, the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, are in the World University Rankings, which is published each year in Times Higher Education, a British newspaper supplement. In the 2015 rankings, the positions of the two Japanese universities fell sharply. The University of Tokyo slipped from 23rd to 43rd place, while Kyoto University dropped from 59th to 88th place. The principle of competition should be introduced at universities to make them stronger, and they should aim to become the world’s number one in fields in which Japan is strong.