Media Coverages

“Innovations Incorporating Traditional Japanese Crafts Into Modern Life” – Associate Prof. ISHIDA Sachiko has been introduced as a “Japanese Visionary Women” on Forbes.com

Japanese Visionary Women finding new value in the traditions of the past. Should traditions be preserved intact, or radically updated for pr ...

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Distinguished Professor Emeritus, SUGIHARA Kokichi was introduced on NHK WORLD- Japan, DESIGN TALKS plus

[The page has been expired.] Designs have long used optical illusions and tricks, but new creators are putting them front and center to educ ...

“Japan’s move toward a diverse and inclusive nation?” by YAMAWAKI Keizo, Professor of School of Global Japanese Studies – The Japan Times

2019 must be remembered in Japan as the year when the Heisei Era ended and the era of Reiwa started, but the buzzword of the year was defini ...

“Communicating with foreign residents in ‘plain Japanese’” by YAMAWAKI Keizo, Professor of School of Global Japanese Studies- The Japan Times

With the December 2018 amendment to the immigration control law,the government created anew visa category to admit more foreign workers.

Master of illusion: SUGIHARA Kokichi’s ‘impossible’ objects

kokichi Sugihara specializes in the impossible. He creates mind-bending physical objects that look and behave in incredible ways when seen f ...