Japan Urges Varsities To Accept US-hit Students

Tokyo: The Japanese government has asked local universities to consider accepting students at US universities as President Donald Trump seeks to force Harvard to submit to unprecedented oversight.

The Trump administration moved last week to block Harvard from enrolling foreign students, but on Friday a judge suspended the order pending a hearing. Trump is furious at Harvard for rejecting
Washington’s oversight on admissions and hiring, amid his claims the school is a hot-bed of
anti-Semitism and “woke” liberal ideology.

Japanese education minister Toshiko Abe said on Tuesday that her ministry has asked Japanese
universities to do what they can to help those affected. “We have asked universities to consider possible support measures such as accepting international students enrolled in US universities so that the students can continue their studies,” she told a news conference. She said the US is the most popular destination for Japanese students wishing to study abroad, and many of them have voiced worries about their status.

She said her ministry will do its “utmost to ensure that young people with ambition and talent can continue their studies.” The University of Tokyo is considering accepting affected students in the United States, albeit on a temporary basis, the university’s vice president Kaori Hayashi said in a recent interview.

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with one of the subjects’ descendants.

The photos identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, whom she calls “Papa Renty”, and his daughter Delia will be transferred from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to the International African American Museum in South Carolina, the state where they were enslaved in 1850 when they were taken, a lawyer said.