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Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jan 7, 2019

Tabloid mag under fire for publishing list of Japanese colleges where girls are 'easily available' for sex at drinking parties

A tabloid magazine has ignited intense backlash on social media after it published a list of colleges whose students are "easily available" for sex after drinking, underscoring what critics described as the country's systematic objectification of women.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Aug 26, 2018

Tokyo Medical University scandal is a throwback to when discrimination against women was the norm

Listening to the excuses being given for discrimination today, it's almost as if 1985's Equal Opportunity Act never happened.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jun 21, 2018

Crisis-plagued private Pyongyang university seeks revival after Trump-Kim summit

When the only private university in North Korea held a commencement in March, the school's American president wasn't there, blocked by Washington's ban on travel to the country.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 21, 2017

How Kake Gakuen's application process bucked the norm

School operator Kake Gakuen's application to open a new veterinary medicine department strayed from well established procedures.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2017

Above the law on college campuses

America's institutions of higher education should follow the same standards of justice as the rest of the nation.
JAPAN / FUKUSHIMA FILE
Aug 20, 2017

Fukushima Medical and Ohio State team up on radiotherapy

Fukushima Medical University has launched an international exchange program with Ohio State University that will focus on developing experts in cancer radiation therapy.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Jul 23, 2017

Filling the void: Disseminating 'blackness' in Japan

I decided it was time to find out about the true state of scholarship in Japan pertaining to Africans and the African diaspora, and the people behind it.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2017

There's no brain science to U.S. college free speech

Campus speakers aren't doing violence to undergraduate neurons.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 12, 2017

Kake Gakuen probe to be relaunched without third party oversight, Suga implies

The government will release the results of the reopened Kake Gakuen probe “as quickly as possible,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 8, 2017

Chinese exam authorities use facial recognition, drones to catch cheats

Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao," the annual university entrance exam seen as key to landing a lucrative white-collar job.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Mar 22, 2017

Author returns to China civil war siege that haunts her, still seeking honor for its dead

Scarred by her childhood ordeal in Changchun, Homare Endo channeled her energies into helping Chinese students in Japan.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Jan 23, 2017

Aoyama Gakuin rules the Hakone ekiden again

Aoyama Gakuin University won the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay for the third straight year on Jan. 3 after completing the two-day race with a lead of more than seven minutes.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 20, 2016

Did U.S. academia help elect Donald Trump?

U.S. institutions of supposedly higher education are awash with hysteria, authoritarianism, obscurantism, philistinism and charlatanry.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Oct 31, 2016

Tokyo University ranked 4th best in Asia

The University of Tokyo ranked 39th in this year's Times Higher Education list, making it the fourth best institution of higher learning in Asia.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Jun 20, 2016

Let's discuss what young Japanese want from work

Google, All Nippon Airways and Toyota have emerged as the ideal workplaces for Japanese millennial talent, according to a survey.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 9, 2016

China uses SWAT teams, prison terms to crack down on entrance exam cheats

From sending SWAT teams into exam centers to arresting rule-breakers, China's public security authorities have been cracking down hard on college entrance examination cheaters who could face jail if caught.
COMMENTARY / World
May 23, 2016

Due process is being kicked off U.S. campuses

A lawsuit by a suspended Colorado university student should be remedial education for administrators.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
May 23, 2016

Let's discuss university scholarships for poorer students

Anti-poverty advocates have launched an online campaign calling on the government to join other developed countries in instituting a scholarship program.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 7, 2016

Nobel laureates visit North Korea, meet with students at elite Pyongyang universities

A group of Nobel laureates visited sanctions-bound North Korea over the last week despite objections from South Korea, saying they wanted to extend an olive branch by bringing nonpolitical, academic diplomacy to the isolated nuclear-armed state.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2016

Oxford rejects political correctness, sort of ...

University students are free to speak out against whatever they wish, but not to erase history.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Dec 2, 2015

Media firm seeks to make prep schooling affordable, higher education reachable, via online lectures

Major media company Recruit Marketing Partners is waging a price war in a field of business that has thrived despite a dwindling pool of clients: preparing for entrance exams.
WORLD
Nov 13, 2015

Students across U.S. march over debt, free public college

Students held demonstrations on university campuses across the United States on Thursday to protest ballooning student loan debt for higher education and rally for tuition-free public colleges.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan will spend ¥325 million in government funds on Princess Yuriko's funeral
Princess Yuriko waves during the New Year's public greeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in January 2019.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.

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