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KEIO UNIVERSITY

Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2017
Students taking part in annual SKIP exchange program say more Japanese need overseas work experience
To better expose Japan to global perspectives and work culture, a group of students from Keio and Stanford universities participating in an two-week exchange program said more Japanese students need to gain work experience abroad.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2017
Japanese firms needs to boost worker happiness to survive, well-being expert says
Feeling blue at work? According to Keio University professor Takashi Maeno, there are science-backed reasons explaining why workers may feel so distressed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 8, 2017
Abe’s hotel spa and gym visits inflame media speculation
Are Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's weekly "workouts" masking something more ominous?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jun 7, 2017
Found in translation: At a Japanese hospital, life-saving cancer care and top-class staff
A foreign patient finds much to praise after her stint at a hospital in Japan, despite the language and cultural hiccups.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Nov 27, 2016
Big Bears clinch back-to-back Kanto collegiate championships
The Waseda University Big Bears, who needed some help from other teams to clinch back-to-back Kanto collegiate championships, did get the assistance and also did their part.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 31, 2016
The bright side, and dark, of Japan's university beauty contests
On Oct. 4, Keio University in Tokyo announced that a student group responsible for organizing its annual beauty pageant had been ordered to disband for conducting "dangerous acts," including forcing minors to drink.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 22, 2016
Rape allegation casts harsh light on university club
Bright and vivacious young women are in great demand as TV announcers. For many in Japan, the stepping stone to a career in broadcast news has been the annual Miss Keio contest, held during the autumn festival at the nation's most prestigious private university: Keio, in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2016
Nomura-Keio fund boosts investment target for domestic startups
Keio University and Nomura Holdings Inc. increased the fundraising goal for their venture-capital partnership by 50 percent to ¥15 billion after demand from Japanese financial firms during the first phase of financing exceeded expectations.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 19, 2016
Japanese team finds new way to create, research Parkinson's stem cells
Researchers from Juntendo and Keio universities have come up with a quicker and easier way to generate iPS cells from people with Parkinson's disease, a discovery they claim will go a long way in developing a cure for the neurological disease.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 11, 2014
Takahashi's superb passing sparks Niho University to rout over Keio University
Sophomore quarterback Ryohei Takahashi completed 19 of 23 passes for 229 yards and four touchdowns, leading the Nihon University Phoenix to a 63-20 triumph over the Keio University Unicorns on Saturday in a Kanto Collegiate League game.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Sep 20, 2014
Tezuka field goal puts Keio University Unicorns ahead for good against Meiji University Griffins
Taiyo Tezuka kicked a 28-yard field goal to break a 14-14 tie with 5:14 in the fourth quarter as the Keio University Unicorns rallied to beat the Meiji University Griffins 24-14 on Saturday at Kawasaki Fujimi Stadium.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Mar 15, 2014
1866 and all that: the untold early history of rugby in Japan
The history of rugby in Japan is arguably longer than that of every major rugby-playing country in the world outside of the British Isles and Australia. Very sorry France, New Zealand and South Africa! Regarding early documented rugby history, Japan wins. Until the recent discovery of an 1864 article...
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
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.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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