Education in Japan, within the nexus of business, science and internationalization, is currently developing progressive initiatives. One such trend is to move university teaching out of brick-and-mortar classrooms and into the online sphere. This could be, in its more modest form, simply supplementary resources ...

A government panel of experts broadly agreed on a package of measures on Thursday to curb the flow of students to universities in the Tokyo metropolitan area. The package features the introduction of new regulations that basically ban universities in Tokyo’s densely populated 23 ...

Princess Kako, a granddaughter of Emperor Akihito, will study at the University of Leeds in Britain from this September to June next year as an exchange student, the Imperial Household Agency said. The 22-year-old princess, the second daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, ...

It’s midnight at the convenience store I often patronize near my home in Tokyo’s central Shinjuku district. The store’s open all day and night, 365 days a year. There is one man I’ve seen quite a bit of lately — behind the counter, stocking ...

lbany, New York There’s a big string attached to New York’s free middle-class college tuition initiative: Students must stay in the state after graduation or else pay back the benefit. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that the requirement was added to protect the ...

All the homestays I have done in my life — three of them — were psychologically traumatic in uniquely torturous ways.

Scarred by her childhood ordeal in Changchun, Homare Endo channeled her energies into helping Chinese students in Japan.