List of Articles
Career/Education
Japanese lacquerware culture with a richness not found in disposable culture
February 10, 2022
Did you know that the country name of Japan also refers to lacquerware? That shows how surprised Westerners were by the beauty of Japanese l ...
Media Coverages
Professor MORINAGA Yuki was introduced on NHK WORLD-Japan, Science View, “Special Episode: Lessons from Minamata Disease”
February 10, 2022
From the 1950s to the 1960s, Minamata Bay in Kumamoto Prefecture, located in the western part of Japan, was contaminated with organic mercur ...
International
For future generations to enjoy the taste of Pacific saury in season
February 3, 2022
In recent years, the awareness of fishery resource conservation has increased globally. However, there are differences in perception between ...
Media Coverages
Professor NOZAWA Chie was introduced on Discuss Japan — Japan Foreign Policy Forum, “Land and Homes and the Japanese: The issue of vacant houses and land with unknown owners today—What progress with preparations for closing houses?”
January 28, 2022
For many years, the dream of owning a plot of land and a home has characterized the Japanese. Nonetheless, we are now faced with a strange s ...
Business
Innovation starting in India has begun with chaos
January 25, 2022
In recent years, various innovations have been taking place in India, leading to the revitalization of society and the overcoming of challen ...
Society/Life
Unlocking the consumer from captive business models
January 19, 2022
In recent years, regulations on the activities of digital platform providers have tightened, mainly in the EU. The activities of platform pr ...
Media Coverages
Professor MIYASHITA Homei was introduced on REUTERS, “Tasty TV: Japanese professor creates flavourful screen”
January 14, 2022
A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours, another step towards creating a multi-sens ...
Society/Life
What is necessary to sustain the biodiversity of Satoyama?
January 11, 2022
We are seeing more trees suffering from disease in recent years. A tree disease called Japanese oak wilt has recently spread in the Tokyo me ...
IT/Science
Dissemination of seismically isolated structures towards building a city to live in continuously in the future
December 21, 2021
Japan is a country with frequent earthquakes. Actually, large earthquakes have occurred almost every year in recent years. Although we human ...