While Japan once again tops this year’s Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings, it is finding its traditional dominance in higher education increasingly challenged by China and South Korea, education experts say. Japan held on to the No. 1 spot in this year’s rankings, ...
Tokyo Electric donated \120 million to a University of Tokyo course taught by a professor who has just been nominated as a Nuclear Regulation Authority commissioner.
A University of Tokyo student set to spend a year as an exchange student in Illinois this summer doesn’t think English skill is the only thing that matters when going to the United States. He thinks curiosity, knowledge and a spirit of adventure also ...
If robots with artificial intelligence prove they can outperform humans, will most jobs currently undertaken by people be done by robots instead? To find out the answer, Noriko Arai, 51, a mathematician at the National Institute of Informatics, launched the “Can a Robot Get ...
The University of Tokyo will hold symposiums on March 9 and 11 on its Hongo campus to mark the third anniversary of the triple meltdowns at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Scholars will speak on “Energy risk governance” during ...
A University of Tokyo cosmological institute said Monday that its research data became publicly accessible for some time until Jan. 27 following unauthorized access to its computer server. The research activities at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe were ...
Obese diabetic mice given an experimental drug designed to mimic a hormone with anti-diabetic effects improved the health of the animals and extended their life span, a study found. The compound, called AdipoRon, improved sensitivity to insulin and lowered blood-sugar levels in mice fed ...
The University of Tokyo is once again the highest-performing tertiary institution in Asia, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings released Wednesday. The prestigious university moved up four places from last year to 23rd in this year’s table. Japan also solidified its ...
Imagine standing in the middle of Angkor Thom in Cambodia, located next to Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world, and seeing the ancient capital come to life in its entirety in front of you in three dimensions — the way it ...
The University of Tokyo announced Friday it will introduce a quarterly academic year from April 2015, replacing the current two semesters, to align itself with the international standard. The decision by its board was based on proposals made in a June panel report that ...
A flexible electrical circuit one-fifth the thickness of food wrap and weighing less than a feather could improve the movement of artificial limbs by tapping into signals from the brain, its Japanese developers say. The team at the University of Tokyo said the device, ...
The first group of students at the University of Tokyo have submitted their plans and embarked on a new "gap year program" to learn from the world.
