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Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 10, 2019
Hungary will not soften laws to allow George Soros college to stay
Hungary will not relax rules for international universities despite pressure from the European Union and offers from Germany to mediate in a row over a college founded by U.S. billionaire George Soros, the government spokesman said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 31, 2017
Free college helps the rich the most
Making college free for all isn¡¯t the right way to insure poor students have access to higher education.
JAPAN
Apr 4, 2017
University of Tokyo leads new Japan ranking of higher education institutions
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.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Jul 27, 2016
What to expect when applying for college overseas
In a few weeks, my daughter, an American-Japanese dual national born, raised and mostly educated in Japanese in Japan, will begin her first year of higher learning at her dream school ¡ª Middlebury College, one of America¡¯s oldest liberal arts institutes.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Nov 28, 2015
Safety first
My senpai (senior) is always safety-oriented, so he would always take a scholarship over an entrance examination to enter college.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 27, 2015
Accuser, 16, runs from court as prep school rape defendant, 19, claims consensual contact
A former student on trial for rape in a case that has cast a harsh light on the culture of an elite New Hampshire prep school testified on Wednesday that he had a consensual sexual encounter with his 15-year-old accuser that stopped short of intercourse.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2015
Obama¡¯s gamble on free community college
Is U.S. President Barack Obama¡¯s proposal to make community college free mostly an exercise in political brand management?
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 16, 2014
Speech rules turn college into no-thought zone
In the U.S., vague bans on ¡®offensive¡¯ language and other ¡®politically correct¡¯ measures that most people think of when they imagine college speech codes are increasingly being joined by quarantine policies that restrict all student speech, regardless of its content.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Putin visits disputed Etorofu island off Hokkaido, sparking protest from Tokyo
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Yasny fish processing factory on Etorofu island, one of four islands in the contested chain known as the Kuril Islands in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, on Thursday.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Authorities urge continued caution after heavy rain in Chiba leaves eight dead
A local resident walks past a 7-Eleven convenience store in a flooded area after heavy rain in the city of Oamishirasato, Chiba Prefecture, on Friday.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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