The importance of higher education in promoting economic growth is a well-known axiom of development and this role is only expected to increase as changes in globalization, demography and technology ...

*Updated: An earlier version of this post said that The University of Tokyo does not offer undergraduate international exchange programs, when, in fact, it does. It also referred to the school as ...

Julie Tanaka has spent 19 of her 22 years at Japan Women’s University, in Tokyo. She entered the university’s kindergarten program at the age of 3, progressed through its elementary school, middle ...

Admission to Japanese universities involves exams such as EJU and JLPT, along with English proficiency and secondary education proof to meet eligibility criteria.

Japan's 89 national universities and 4 university collaborative research institutions, which are all subsidized by the government, will operate as independent administrative institutions beginning ...

Japanese universities are seeking to restore coral reefs and marine ecosystems after inheriting artificial coral structures ...

Shigeru Okayama receives Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Japan). Japanese universities may have been born out of European models, but they have set down their own firm foundations since the ...

As one of the leaders behind a nascent movement to Americanize the athletic culture at Japanese universities, Kensuke Nakata draws inspiration from his early days as a college sports fan. At first, he ...

When I was a sophomore in 2014 at Mount Holyoke College, a women’s college in Massachusetts, our college president announced that transgender women would be able to join our student body. I and the ...