The British science journal Nature has ranked a university in Japan's southern prefecture of Okinawa in the top ten of institutions with the highest output of top-quality research in the natural sciences.
The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University was ranked tenth globally and number one in Japan.
The Japanese government is taking action against a university for losing track of more than a thousand foreign students.
The government launched an inquiry into Tokyo University of Social Welfare after it came to light that many foreign students, including Vietnamese and Nepalese, were unaccounted for at a campus in Kita Ward, Tokyo. The school has four campuses across Japan.
Nissan has reportedly paid the tuition fees for Ghosn's four children when they attended Stanford University between 2004 and 2015.
This year's unified college and university entrance exams in Japan have ended for almost all applicants .
Applicants took tests in science and mathematics across the country on the 2nd and final day on Sunday.
More than half a million high-school students and graduates across Japan are putting their knowledge to the test at unified college and university entrance exams.
The number of applicants sitting for this year's exams, taking place on Saturday and Sunday, is down slightly by 5,841, to 576,830.
Tokyo Medical University has been stripped of its accreditation, following recent revelations that the university rigged entrance examinations against female and older applicants.
A private organization, called the Japan Accreditation Council for Medical Education, made the decision at its board meeting on Thursday.
A group of 19 students from Clemson University in South Carolina have built a potent Honda Civic that could give current Rallycross cars a run for their money. 
A police officer has been fatally stabbed at a koban police box in northeastern Japan.
Police have identified the suspect as a 21-year-old university student.
Tokyo Medical University has admitted to tampering with entrance exam scores to raise the bar for women and for men who failed such exams several times.
Tokyo prosecutors indicted Masahiko Usui, former chairman of the university's board of regents, and the university's former president last month on bribery charges.
A Japanese university will dismiss its American football team's former head coach and his assistant over a dangerous foul that drew widespread criticism.
Tokyo-based Nihon University made the decision at a meeting of its directors on Monday. The team submitted a report on the issue to the Kantoh Collegiate Football Association earlier this month.
A University of Tokyo institute will make base data available to the public online to prevent misconduct in research papers.
Last year, fabrications and other problems were found with graphs and images cited in 5 papers written by researchers at the university's then Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.
NHK has learned that a top executive of a medical university may have been involved in an unfolding bribery scandal that led to the arrest of a senior Education Ministry bureaucrat.
On Wednesday, Tokyo prosecutors arrested Futoshi Sano, 58 years old, on suspicion of illicitly having his son enrolled at Tokyo Medical University in return for giving it favorable treatment in May last year. Sano was head of the ministry's Science and Technology Policy Bureau, but was dismissed from the post after the arrest.
NHK has learned that a top university executive may be involved in a scandal linked to alleged entrance exam tampering.
Tokyo prosecutors arrested a high-ranking Education Ministry bureaucrat on Wednesday for allegedly accepting bribes. Futoshi Sano was head of the ministry's Science and Technology Policy Bureau, but was fired from the post after his arrest.
The president of Nihon University has apologized over a violent incident in an American football match earlier this month.
Kichibee Otsuka made the apology at a news conference on Friday.