Junko Hibiya
The President of International Christian University

2012.5.23

At the beginning of March, I attended a meeting for people connected to universities. The only topic they discussed was autumnal admission. The University of Tokyo released “The future timing of ...[more]

Yukiko Uchida
Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, Associate Professor

2012.3

There are said to be 700,000 young people in their twenties and thirties who are known as hikikomori (social withdrawn) in modern Japan. If hikikomori is a characteristic phenomenon of modern Japan, ...[more]

Makiko Naka
Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Letters, Professor

2012.3

In Japan’s criminal investigations, eliciting confessions from the suspect is an important goal. If “information that is only privy to the criminal” can be elicited from the ...[more]

Dr. Soshi Honda
Associate Professor at Higashi Nippon International University, Faculty of Welfare and Environment

2012.2

A large amount of radioactive material was dispersed mainly across Fukushima Prefecture on March 12, 2011, due to a hydrogen explosion at Tokyo Electric Power Company Incorporated's Fukushima Daiichi ...[more]

Kazunari Sasaki
Chief Professor, Kyushu University, Director, Next-Generation Fuel Cell Research Center

2012.2

Since recent energy issues and global warming measures have become major international issues, expectations on commercializing fuel cells have been increasing. The biggest feature of a fuel cell is ...[more]

Nobuo Mimura
Assistant Vice President, Ibaraki University and Director, Institute for Global Change Adaptation Science

2012.1

2011 was in retrospect, a historic year of major disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami in March, the heavy rainfalls and mudslides in the Kii Peninsula caused by Typhoon No. 12 in September, ...[more]

Shigemi Oshida
Emeritus Professor (Forensic Medicine), Nihon University

2012.1

I was appointed as an assistant in 1968 and later as an Assistant Professor of the Division of Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, Tohoku University and had been engaged in forensic autopsies in ...[more]

Yoshio Shioya,
Science Journalist

2012.1

There is no other document that condenses or embodies more clearly the immaturity and non-scientific levels hidden within the Japanese society than this. The interim report on the Fukushima Daiichi ...[more]

Masayasu Miyabayashi,
Professor/Vice-President of the Chiba Institute of Science, Former Director of the Nuclear Safety Bureau of the Science and Technology Agency

2011.12

The so-called “3.11 (March 11, 2011),” or the Great East Japan Earthquake and the accompanying Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, have had a profound impact, not only on the ...[more]

Haruo Kurasawa,
Science Journalist

2011.12

“Safety measures” start to lead to accidents at precisely the moment we think “this is sufficient.” This is the way “safety” goes. According to the famous ...[more]