The emergence of international academic rankings is one of the most interesting phenomena in the field of comparative analysis of higher education. The growing influence of the Shanghai ranking led its many critics to show strong reluctance in using it as a source of analysis and improvement, mainly because it was generally thought that its results were not reproducible. Once we have found a way to accurately replicate the results of the ranking, we are in a position to shed light into the

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... rmance of whole Higher Education systems. This technical report presents the results of Japanese universities in the 2018 edition of the Shanghai ranking. Comparison with the results presented in our previous 2015 and 2013 reports are also shown.