TOKYO (AP) — Growing up, Fumina Oka knew little about the mysterious university her Taiwanese grandfather attended in northern China's Manchuria during Japan’s occupation in the early 20th century.

The importance of higher education in promoting economic growth is a well-known axiom of development and this role is only expected to increase as changes in globalization, demography and technology ...

Julie Tanaka has spent 19 of her 22 years at Japan Women’s University, in Tokyo. She entered the university’s kindergarten program at the age of 3, progressed through its elementary school, middle ...

TOKYO — The campus of International Christian University was an oasis of quiet in the final week of the winter term, with a handful of undergraduates studying beneath the newly sprouting plum trees ...

For Nigerian students aiming to study in Japan in 2027, these 10 universities that provide opportunities for fully funded or ...

Japan’s boldest move yet to position itself as a global research powerhouse is underway, with the first of its new cohort of top-tier universities rolling out historic changes. In 2023, the Japanese ...

*Updated: An earlier version of this post said that The University of Tokyo does not offer undergraduate international exchange programs, when, in fact, it does. It also referred to the school as ...

Japan's education ministry will allow Tohoku University, Hiroshima University, and University of Tsukuba to admit more ...

Tohoku University gutted its landmark engineering building a few years ago, leaving the brick facade intact. From the outside, the Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR) looks much as when ...

Japan's plummeting birth rate has sparked policy discussions about the challenges facing higher education institutions that could lead some to shutter. The fertility rate in Japan, or the average ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. − Purdue President Mung Chiang signed an international agreement with Micron, Tokyo Electron and other educational institutions in the United States and Japan to establish the ...