Topics
List- To promote international education, Temple University Japan Campus creates the position of Director of the Office of the President and appoints Dr. Meiyi Shaw
- Konan Women's University and Ashiya City sign partnership agreement to produce special program 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
- Huis Ten Bosch Chairman Katsuhiko Sakaguchi appointed as Chairman of the Nagasaki Prefecture Public University Corporation
- Waseda University launches 150th anniversary project promotion committee, formulating new plans including re-challenging to become an international research university of excellence
- SNS, parental involvement, job-hunting awareness... Mynavi announces "Part-time job survey for university students (2024)"
Research results
List- Subjectively experiencing social isolation and feeling lonely increase depressive symptoms
- Conservative safety-conscious behavior may reduce flexibility of movement, discovered by Tokyo Metropolitan University
- Juntendo University discovers that ceramide liposome nasal spray suppresses allergic rhinitis
- Waseda University and others confirm that chewing vegetables stimulates insulin secretion after meals
- Osaka Public University and the University of Tokyo analyze the bacteria that cause armpit odor at the genetic level
Local creation
List- Niigata Prefecture donates 5,000 million yen to Niigata University School of Medicine to alleviate shortage of doctors
- Temple University Japan Campus signs comprehensive partnership agreement with Ehime Prefecture, following Nagasaki and Yamanashi Prefectures
- Five national universities in Shikoku jointly declare a research environment where women can thrive
- Let’s cross “boundaries” to find “connection” FY5 COC+R National Symposium Report
- Hokkaido, Sapporo City, Hokkaido University, Nitori extend collaboration agreement for IT human resource development
Industry-academia collaboration
List- Waseda University and others confirm that chewing vegetables stimulates insulin secretion after meals
- Medical costs will decrease with the opening of a new railway station, estimated by Osaka Public University and others based on medical big data
- Tiger launches “Tiger Thermos My Bottle SDGs Project for School” to think about the environment through “My Bottle”
- Heart and blood vessel repair patch “Symphorium” wins Senken Gosen Prize runner-up prize Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University
- Tohoku University and Nippon Koei develop technology to instantly predict urban building damage after an earthquake
entrance exam
List- A comprehensive conference that connects learning “2024 High School-University Connection General Meeting” will be held in Tokyo (5/28) and Osaka (5/31) to solve the problems of entrance exams this year and new curriculum guidelines entrance exams at once
- Kyoritsu Women's University introduces comprehensive selection (basic academic ability method) that allows concurrent applications from 2025 entrance exam
- Are students admitted through comprehensive selection methods more motivated to study compared to other selection methods? - From the report on the effects of introducing comprehensive selection methods
- Hokkaido University Common Test “Information I” From 2026 entrance exam, there will be a point allocation from zero to a point allocation
- Osaka Seikei University establishes a new "special quota for women" and scholarships with approximately 205 million yen tuition fee reduction in the Faculty of Data Science starting from the 2025 entrance exam
Careers
List- Osaka University of Economics makes 283 shared offices nationwide available to support students looking for jobs
- Summer school 2024 for junior and senior high school girls - Science, technology, and encounters with people - Held for 8 days from August 10th (Sat) Looking for participants
- U.S.-Japan Education Commission recruits scholars for the Fulbright Language Assistant (FLTA) Program Improve your English skills while teaching Japanese at an American university
- “Sophia Mirai Juku,” an online course exclusively for high school students, will begin in May with lectures by UN officials and other experts Sophia University
- Kwansei Gakuin University won the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award and the Career Design Program Award chosen by students