A University of Tokyo panel said Friday that several scientists, including former professor Shigeaki Kato, had conspired to use false images in 33 research papers. The investigation by the school, better known as Todai, has centered on a team Kato led at its Institute ...
Invisibility may still be the stuff of fiction, but researchers in Japan have developed a way to make mice almost totally transparent. Using a method that almost completely removes color from tissue, researchers say they can now examine individual organs or even whole bodies ...
The University of Tokyo has ranked 24th in a list of the world’s 500 leading universities by U.S. News and World Report. It’s the highest-ranking institution in Asia, and is followed by Peking University in 39th place. Eighteen universities in the United States, four ...
A 35-year-old researcher who fears the Japanese eel may soon be extinct has produced a picture book to get children to see them not just as food but as a threatened species. “Unagi no U-chan — Daiboken” (“The Adventure of a Japanese Eel called ...
The administration should consider a supplementary budget this year and will need to add stimulus for the economy to weather the planned increase in the consumption tax in 2015, according to Motoshige Itoh, a member of an advisory panel to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. ...
The University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology and the Nippon Foundation will launch a project to find highly talented children who refuse to go to school and to educate them as future leaders. The project aims to discover human resources ...
The University of Tokyo reveals that four of its former researchers helped cover up phony data used in flawed thesis papers from 1996 to 2011.
Elephants possess a sense of smell that is likely the strongest ever identified in a single species, according to a study by Japanese scientists. The African elephant’s genome contains nearly 2,000 olfactory receptor genes, the most of any species covered by the study, which ...
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 ...
