List of Articles
Press Releases
Professor SUGIHARA Kokichiʼs Original Optical Illusion wins the first prize at the “Best Illusion of the Year Contest, 2018”
October 23, 2018
The Director of the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences (MIMS), Professor Kokichi Sugihara, successfully took first ...
Society/Life
Is a legal framework needed to prevent damage from torrential rains!?
October 19, 2018
CO2 emissions reduction has been a global issue. Japan set a goal to cut emissions by 26.0％ by 2030 from its 2013 level by ensuring emission ...
IT/Science
Your own beautiful characters can be created, while making the most of handwritten characters
October 16, 2018
While computers have drastically reduced the effort needed for people to write characters, typed characters lack personality compared to han ...
Career/Education
Adults’ ingenious ideas make children geniuses at foreign language
October 5, 2018
In the new Course of Study, scheduled to be implemented in FY2020, foreign language (English) study will become a compulsory subject for upp ...
IT/Science
Is Cash Obsolete?
October 4, 2018
FinTech refers to the synthesis of finance and technology delivering innovative financial services. It has attracted increasing attention in ...
Society/Life
Declining marriage and ever-increasing childlessness – Japan’s future will be lost if nothing is done
October 3, 2018
Japan’s very low fertility has entered a new phase. The annual births in 2016 were 977,000, a decrease of 29,000 from the previous year, goi ...
Society/Life
Can Japan break away from being an “underdeveloped country” in women’s political participation?
September 27, 2018
In May 2018, the “Act on Promotion of Gender Equality in the Political Field ,” which aims to achieve gender parity in the number of candida ...
IT/Science
Can origami contribute to space development and save the future of human beings!?
September 26, 2018
News of launching large space structures such as solar sails into space has been a topic of conversation for some time because Japanese Orig ...
International
We, as Japanese, do not want to hold our tongues on “Japan’s Annexation of Korea”
August 23, 2018
The Inter-Korean Summit Meeting and the U.S.-North Korea Summit Meeting were held sequentially, paving the way for the denuclearization of t ...