The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be unpredictable. Meiji scholars have been considering the scientific, technical and medical challenges of the pandemic as well as its social, economic and legal implications.
Meiji University is applying its interdisciplinary expertise in the hopes of ensuring a recovery for all people and offering solutions that can benefit the world.
Career/Education
Will cities become more virtual due to COVID-19 led migration?
July 16, 2021
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has reportedly triggered an outflow of population from Tokyo to other prefectures. Looking at the data, howev ...
Society/Life
Does behavioral economics make people free, or does it make us dependent?
June 2, 2021
We have recently started hearing the term “behavioral economics”. Behavioral economics became widely known when its original proponent, Rich ...
Society/Life
Visualization of secure and comfort by building simulation
March 29, 2021
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic increased interest in indoor ventilation. Actually, in building design, ventilation has been considered mainl ...
IT/Science
A drug that works on your body is a drug that works on proteins
March 25, 2021
In many countries, a COVID-19 vaccine is being developed in order to end the pandemic. Molecular dynamics simulations of proteins could be u ...
Society/Life
What do people want to gain from exchanging personal information?
February 24, 2021
Countries have started to proactively make use of personal information as a measure against COVID-19. Also, in Japan, a system to utilize pe ...
Society/Life
Our new life shifting to a decarbonized society
January 15, 2021
Countries across the world, including Japan, are currently making various efforts to curb global warming. Building a decarbonized society is ...
Society/Life
COVID-19 could be a historic turning point in urban policy
October 14, 2020
The novel coronavirus pandemic in 2020 provided us with opportunities to reconsider how society should be. One of them is the issue of commu ...
Business
Data analysis is not a conclusion for data scientists
October 12, 2020
Data science has been attracting a lot of attention in recent years. This is because effective utilization of data is required to solve prob ...