Published on July 12, 2019.
As a continuation of the previous chapter, this passage analyzes texts posted on the websites of the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, the University of Tsukuba, Waseda University, and Keio University, comparing political bias by university and by academic field.
The results suggest that all fields at Kyoto University and the humanities at Keio University were closer to the opposition, while engineering was the most similar to the ruling parties and life sciences the most similar to the opposition, deepening the attempt to quantify ideological bias in universities.

2019-07-12
The next thing attempted was an analysis of texts posted on university websites [3]. Texts such as messages from university faculty members and the educational philosophies of graduate schools and majors posted on their websites were collected by academic field and made the subject of analysis.
What follows is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Comparing the biases of elite universities.
The next thing attempted was an analysis of texts posted on university websites [3].
Texts such as messages from university faculty members and the educational philosophies of graduate schools and majors posted on their websites were collected by academic field and made the subject of analysis. The universities and texts collected and analyzed were the University of Tokyo (humanities and social sciences 44, science and engineering 51, life sciences 38), Kyoto University (72, 37, 40 respectively), the University of Tsukuba (51, 32, 32 respectively), Waseda University (humanities and social sciences 55, science and engineering 29), and Keio University (47, 32 respectively).
As for the life sciences at Waseda and Keio, they were excluded from the analysis because there were too few relevant organizations and it was not possible to collect a sufficient number of texts.　
The collected texts were divided into the three fields of humanities and social sciences, science and engineering, and life sciences, and the results of judging which political party’s statements the texts of each university most closely resembled are shown in Figures 1 through 3 on the left.
The reason all were judged to lean toward the ruling parties is that the texts collected were ones intended to present the universities attractively, and therefore contained more positive expressions than critical or negative ones.
Even so, it became clear that all academic fields at Kyoto University and the humanities at Keio University showed a higher similarity to the opposition parties, and that by field, science and engineering was the most ruling-party-oriented, while life sciences was the most opposition-oriented.　
However, whether a text resembles the statements of the ruling parties or those of the opposition parties is also affected by the balance of positive and negative expressions, so in many respects this is insufficient as a basis for determining whether a way of thinking is conservative or progressive.
For that reason, research into investigating the ideological bias of universities had once stalled, but the previously mentioned “Scholars’ Association Opposed to the Security-Related Laws” provided ideal material for overcoming that difficulty.
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