The Japanese education ministry is embarking on a five-year reform plan for graduate education that it says will release graduate students from a system that requires them to serve almost as ...

The graduation ceremony in the University of Washington's Kane Hall on Sunday had all the signs of the typical rite of passage: "Pomp and Circumstance" played for the crowd, family members cried and ...

Yoshio Matsumoto was among the 110,000 Japanese-Americans seemingly bound for an internment camp soon after America entered World War II when a university he knew nothing about from a far off part of ...

The MA in Asian Languages and Civilizations may be pursued with a specialization in Chinese or Japanese. Graduate students work in a broad interdisciplinary context, requiring a study of literary, ...

A 96-year-old Japanese man is potty at the prospect of breaking more records after being recognised as the world's oldest university graduate with his degree in ceramic arts. Shigemi Hirata received ...

TOKYO -- The Japanese and Vietnamese governments are teaming up to open a graduate school in Hanoi around September 2016. They intend to establish a full-fledged university in 2019 or 2020.

took a deep breath and slowly turned toward the camera, his bleach-blond hair a stark contrast to the simple, black set. To a small audience of his mother, grandmother, two former high school teachers ...

A Colorado State University professor with Weld County roots has received the highest award given to a civilian by the emperor of Japan. John Matsushima, 88, raised on a farm near Platteville, and his ...