Discussions over the introduction of a "Japanese version of the NCAA" to oversee this country's collegiate sports have prompted positive and negative reactions since they began last year. Sports management expert and university professor Itaru Kobayashi is one of the scholars who supports the project ...
The lists, created last July by the ministry’s personnel division, were intended to coordinate the stories among those involved.
In a flashback to his short-lived first term in 2006-07, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is being grilled by opposition parties over the issue of government agencies' support for retiring senior bureaucrats taking lucrative jobs in industries they formerly oversaw, a practice called amakudari. The old ...
The education ministry took disciplinary action Friday against seven senior bureaucrats over their involvement in illegally negotiating to secure their colleague a post-retirement university job. According to a report issued by the Cabinet Office's re-employment oversight committee, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and ...
Kihei Maekawa is alleged to have illegally secured a senior official a post-retirement university job, a senior ministry official said.
Yuta Sasaki threw three touchdown passes in the first half as the Waseda University Big Bears routed the Tohoku University Hornets 47-2 on Sunday at Amino Vital Field in Chofu, Tokyo, in the Eastern Japan Championship. The Big Bears earned a berth in the Koshien ...
Do not underestimate your abilities, make sure to set high goals, and be persistent in striving to achieve them — these are just some of the bits of advice billionaire Tadashi Yanai gives to people who want to become successful business managers. College students and ...
Waseda University in Tokyo is set to revoke the doctoral degree of Haruko Obokata, the biologist who rocked the scientific community by fabricating data during highly touted research on stem cells, sources familiar with the matter said Friday. The former Riken researcher was last October ...
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday sentenced two former members of an investment club at Waseda University to 2½ years in prison, suspended for four years, for manipulating stock prices through Internet trading. The judges also ordered the two, Masahiro Arie, 36, and Ryuji Nunoura, ...
A student group addressing the growing threat of pandemic diseases in the age of globalization received the grand prize for this summer's presentations in The Japan Times Youth Project. Nineteen university students, divided into three groups, delivered in-depth 10-minute presentations at the company's head office ...
Waseda University said Monday it took about half a year before it discovered personal data on roughly 3,300 officials and students had leaked via cyberattacks. Tokyo-based Waseda, one of the top private universities in Japan, said the stolen data included the names, identification numbers, email ...
The biological clock of mice can be disrupted significantly if they are placed under stress before they sleep, according to a study by researchers at Waseda University, suggesting that staying up late at night can be bad for humans. In a recent article published in ...
