Univ. of Tokyo fires associate prof. over anti-Chinese Twitter posts

The University of Tokyo dismissed a 32-year-old associate professor on Wednesday for a series of anti-Chinese comments he made on Twitter late last year.Shohei Osawa, an artificial intelligence researcher, "grossly damaged the honor and reputation" of the state-run university, it said in a statement. Osawa tweeted the same day that his dismissal is "unfair" and the university is "wrong in making light of Japan's AI technology development while valuing the diversity of various Asian countries."Between November and December, Osawa made the controversial comments while introducing himself as t…READ FULL ARTICLE