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Senior Assistant Professor TODA Yasuka was introduced on The Japan Times, “Japan government JST agency announces winners of female researcher awards”
March 1, 2023
The government-affiliated Japan Science and Technology Agency announced the winners of this year’s awards for excellence in science by femal ...
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(photo: JST) TODA Yasuka, Senior Assistant Professor of School of Agriculture, received The Award for Brilliant Female Researchers (The Jun Ashida Award)
December 23, 2022
At the awards ceremony JST presented a trophy and certificate to each winner, and the Ashida Fund* offered one million yen as a supplementar ...
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Professor NAKAJIMA Harushi commented on NHK-WORLD-Japan, Science View “Editing Genomes to Improve Food Production”
August 30, 2022
A new genome editing biotechnology can alter genes, known as the "blueprints" of life. Some foods produced with this technology are already ...
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Associate Professor ISHIDA Sachiko was introduced on Made in Japan, “The Future is Folding”
July 1, 2022
Flip through a book of origami patterns and it's hard not to notice the math staring back at you. The same is true when unfolding a finished ...
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus HAGIWARA Ichiro was introduced on Futurities, the Simulation Based Engineering & Science Magazine by EnginSoft, “Origami Engineering: inspired by Japanese folding culture”
May 10, 2022
Origami, the Japanese art of transforming a single sheet of paper into various shapes, is a traditional cultural activity and form of play t ...
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Dr. Homei Miyashita Laboratory was introduced on REUTERS, “Japan researchers develop electric chopsticks to enhance salty taste”
April 21, 2022
Japanese researchers have developed computerised chopsticks that enhance salty tastes, potentially helping those who need to reduce sodium i ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...