[coolandsmartrr]

  > London based

It's US based. Perhaps you're thinking of The Economist?

[foota]

"Uiversity of Tokyo lost its number one ranking, falling to number seven, in the Asia university rankings published by the Times Higher Education of London"

[ajeet_dhaliwal]

See the first paragraph of the article, the rankings are by Times Higher Education.

[Naritai]

The article says the rankings were published by Times Higher Education of London.