The proportion of children in Japan who dislike studying surges after they enter junior high school, reaching 60 percent in their second year, a new survey has found. The survey, released last week, was conducted by the University of Tokyo and Japanese correspondence education ...
The University of Tokyo was crowned the nation’s top university for teaching and learning environments in a first-ever Japan ranking by the Times Higher Education magazine.
A team led by University of Tokyo researchers has successfully created a healthy pancreas from mouse stem cells inside the body of a rat, in a first between different species, a study published in the British science journal Nature showed. The pancreas, later transplanted ...
Monkeys can make judgments based on memory and be confident about their strategic choices, according to a study released Friday. Researchers from Juntendo University and Tokyo University tested to see if “metamemory” — the ability to monitor one’s memories, a process that is characteristic ...
There is a small group of female TV personalities whose claim to fame is that they graduated from the University of Tokyo, the most prestigious institute of higher learning in Japan. Like most TV personalities, these women have no demonstrable talent, and in almost ...
A team of researchers has failed to develop a robot smart enough to get into Japan's top university.
Thanks to the relentless work of dedicated engineers, artificial intelligence, or AI, becomes smarter by the day. But while computers become better at replicating human tasks, reading comprehension, an area where machines have yet to catch up, is declining among young people, suggesting a ...
After winning the first of a three-game go match against DeepZenGo, a Japanese artificial intelligence system, master Cho Chikun lost the second. DeepZenGo, developed mainly by the University of Tokyo, Dwango Co. and the Nihon Ki-in, the main organization in Japan for the traditional ...
A team of researchers has failed to develop a robot smart enough to get into Japan’s top university. The team, with members from the National Institute of Informatics, said Monday it was abandoning the effort began in 2011 to make a robot able to ...
The University of Tokyo ranked 39th in this year's Times Higher Education list, making it the fourth best institution of higher learning in Asia.
The so-called STAP scandal of 2014 unleashed the power of anonymous online whistleblowers, who exposed falsified data in what had been hailed as groundbreaking stem cell research by the Riken institute and brought down its star scientist, Haruko Obokata. While the scandal — which ...
The University of Oxford ranked first in an influential survey of the world’s top universities released Thursday, becoming the first university outside the United States to take top spot, with the California Institute of Technology in second place and Stanford University third. The University ...
