An e-mail to the edX community announced the addition of the University of Tokyo to the xConsortium.. University of Tokyo has been a longstanding member of the OCW Consortium community and Japan OCW Consortium. From the e-mail:
UTokyoX will be announced at a press conference to be held on Tuesday, February 18th in Tokyo. At that time they will also announce their first two courses, Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 1 and Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 2.
Our congratulations to the team at University of Tokyo.