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HARVARD UNIVERSITY

The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. U.S. President Donald Trump has barred Harvard from accepting international students, prompting Japanese universities to offer support.
JAPAN / Society
Jun 7, 2025
Japanese universities step up to help international students after Harvard ban
Eighty-seven universities have announced support measures for international students in the U.S. who face difficulties continuing their studies.
The Harvard University shield "VERITAS" sits above a campus entrance gate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last month.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / FOCUS
May 24, 2025
Long advantageous, Harvard's China ties become a political liability
The ties have yielded major financial gifts, influence in international affairs and global prestige for the school.
EDITORIALS
Dec 24, 2020
Ezra Vogel always believed in Japan’s potential
Vogel's passing leaves a great void and his death — like his life — should occasion reflection and action in Japan to honor and continue his efforts.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2020
How wrong was Milton Friedman? Harvard team quantifies the ways.
'Without monetizing impacts, we're left with the illusion that businesses have no impact,” says Professor George Serafeim of Harvard Business School.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 13, 2020
Harvard wins appeal on race but the battle is far from over
Harvard University can continue to consider race in its admissions decisions, after a federal appeals court ruled that it isn’t intentionally discriminating against Asian Americans and the policy doesn’t violate the U.S. Constitution.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 10, 2020
China and scientists dismiss study suggesting coronavirus spread in August 2019
Beijing dismissed as "ridiculous" a Harvard Medical School study of hospital traffic and search engine data that suggested the novel coronavirus may already have been spreading in China last August, and scientists said it offered no convincing evidence of when the outbreak began.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 22, 2019
Study reveals music's universal patterns
From love songs to dance tunes to lullabies, music made in disparate cultures worldwide displays certain universal patterns, according to a study by researchers who suggest a commonality in the way human minds create music.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Jun 11, 2018
Rakuten reliever Frank Herrmann follows path from Harvard to Sendai
Frank Herrmann is still putting his Harvard University education to good use. Just not in the way, and certainly not in the place, he expected.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2018
Longtime Harvard Japanese teacher Yori Oda dies at 82
Yori Oda, a decorated teacher who taught Japanese at Harvard University for 35 years, died earlier this month after a recent illness. She was 82.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2016
Polyglot U.S.-born comic sheds cloak, dagger for shtick
For Reina Saiki, 28, the world is her oyster.

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic