Universities set to accept Brazilian science majors
Japanese universities are being asked to accept about 1,300 Brazilian science majors over the next three years in a program funded by the South American country aimed at building its industrial...
View ArticleFreshmen allowances tumble to ¥89,500 a month
Allowances sent from home to freshmen at private colleges in the 2012 academic year fell to a record low average of ¥89,500 per month, a recent Tokyo college staff union poll has found. The level...
View ArticleMuseum sets out to discover Media Explorers
Last year, the staff at the Visual Museum in the city of Kawaguchi’s industrial hub of Skip City set out to award a new class of explorers. The definition of their so-called media explorer was someone...
View ArticleYubari posts ‘debt clock’ ticking off rehab
The city of Yubari, Hokkaido, which declared bankruptcy in March 2007 with debts of ¥35.3 billion, has posted a clock on its website to show the real-time liability balance and amount it has repaid....
View ArticleGaruda plans Osaka-Jakarta flights amid soaring interest in Indonesia
Garuda Indonesia will begin offering flights between Osaka and Jakarta in October as part of its international expansion strategy, the chief of the nation’s flagship carrier said. “Japan is one of the...
View ArticleTokyo bookstore boasts roof apiary
Major construction firm Kajima Corp. has started beekeeping in Tokyo jointly with bookstore chain Yaesu Book Center in a project to help raise awareness of environmental protection. Some 20,000 western...
View ArticleJapanese photographer points his camera at Cameroon for exhibition
Photographer Michio Hiraiwa has been given the title of goodwill ambassador for Kenyan tourism because of his numerous visits to the country — 150 times since 1972. The 78-year-old has also traveled to...
View ArticleInose apologizes for slurring Muslims
Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose on Tuesday apologized for and retracted comments perceived as critical of Islamic countries that appeared in a recent New York Times article concerning Tokyo’s 2020 bid for the...
View ArticleSpring fever hits workers, students hard after Golden Week
It’s now a month since freshmen, finally freed from the stressful life of studying to pass rigorous university entrance exams, began their new lives at their new schools. April was also when newly...
View Article‘Curry town’ to host a festival
The city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, is known by many as “curry town.” The port city claims that the curry rice dish that is commonly consumed in Japan spread from its kitchens, as it had a close...
View ArticleHow signs of a ‘lost continent’ came into JAMSTEC’s underwater view
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the Brazilian government announced Tuesday the discovery of a large mass of granite on the seafloor near Rio de Janero — a landmark finding...
View ArticleUniversities lure students with upscale dorms
Universities in Japan are doing everything they can to attract students amid the aging society and decline in young people. One approach to lure applicants is to provide dormitories with...
View ArticleCase closed over Inose’s Islamic slight: Tokyo Olympics bid exec
The president of Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics bid committee Friday downplayed Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose’s recent criticism of Islamic countries, saying the matter had effectively been resolved by the incumbent’s...
View ArticleOmotesando cafe’s stationery theme worth taking note of
Quirky, theme-based cafes have in recent years been part of the Tokyo landscape, including those featuring cats, young girls sporting sexy fantasy “maid” garb, and even “rakugo” comic storytelling. In...
View ArticleNankai Big One could kill 1,800 in isles: metro team
Some 1,800 people in the Izu and Ogasawara island chains in the Pacific could be killed, mainly by tsunami, if the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan experiences a major temblor, the metro...
View ArticleEducation panel urges Japanese colleges to reach outside
The nation’s universities should try to rejuvenate themselves by collaborating with overseas institutions to offer joint degrees and attracting more foreign teachers and students to nurture global...
View ArticleRace begins for metro assembly
Campaigning kicked off Friday for the June 23 Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election, which appears to lack a major divisive issue but whose results may portend the outcome of the crucial July Upper...
View ArticleTokyo bookstore boasts roof apiary
Major construction firm Kajima Corp. has started beekeeping in Tokyo jointly with bookstore chain Yaesu Book Center in a project to help raise awareness of environmental protection. Some 20,000 western...
View ArticleJapanese photographer points his camera at Cameroon for exhibition
Photographer Michio Hiraiwa has been given the title of goodwill ambassador for Kenyan tourism because of his numerous visits to the country — 150 times since 1972. The 78-year-old has also traveled to...
View ArticleInose apologizes for slurring Muslims
Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose on Tuesday apologized for and retracted comments perceived as critical of Islamic countries that appeared in a recent New York Times article concerning Tokyo’s 2020 bid for the...
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