Japan’s most prestigious university adds its first new department in nearly 70 years as it strives for greater internationalization.
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Top ten universities in the overall ranking are situated in nine different Japanese prefectures.
Light displays, idol dances, motivational speeches, celebrity appearances–you name it, they’ve got it.
Say hello to the Four Heavenly Kings of Center Listening.
The exciting program may be the first graduate video game design course at a Japanese university.
Majority say they can see some sort of logic behind university systematically reducing women’s entrance exam scores by up to 20 percent.
Source says score-rigging was born out of concern that many “female doctors quit their jobs after having children.”
School asserts that it will accept female-identifying students even if they are listed as male on their legal family registry.
Some universities try to recruit students by telling them about all the fun they’ll have there, but not this Tokyo institute of higher learning.
From fashion to extracurricular activities, the lives of an American colleges students are an ocean apart from their counterparts in Japan.
Earlier this year, news of a letter sent to presidents of national universities—purportedly telling them to get rid of or modify their humanities departments to better “benefit” Japanese society—spread across the Internet. Since then, it has even been picked up by some high-profile English sites, with considerable (and understandable) consternation. And you can believe there were academics in Japan who were incensed at the idea as well.
But is it actually going to happen? It turns out the short answer is a weak “probably not.” The long answer, though, is a bit more complicated.
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