Hiromichi Kamitsubo
Vice-Chairman, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI)

2007.02

　Synchrotron radiation facilities that produce very sharp brilliant light such as X-rays are cutting-edge research centers that can be of benefit in various areas from basic science right through to ...[more]

Ikuo Nishioka
President of Mobile Internet Capital, Inc.

2007.02

　Venture companies naturally have neither human resources, money, mass production technology, marketing power, brand recognition nor credit standing. All they have are unique technologies, innovative ...[more]

Sanae Takaichi
State Minister (in charge of innovation)

2007.02

　With the turn of the 21st century, Japan has entered an era of population decline. On a global scale, various problems, including those related to population, food supply, and environment and ...[more]

Kazuo Yoshimoto
Guest Researcher, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University

2007.01

　The news is filled with depressing stories, and classrooms are losing their vitality day by day. Young people are losing their zest for life or their hopes for the future, and are starved of ...[more]

Akihisa Inoue
President, Tohoku University

2006.12

　Despite severe financial difficulties, Japan has promoted scientific and technological researches since 1996 by increasing on a term basis the budget scale of the Basic Program for Science and ...[more]

Satoshi Matsuda
City News Division reporter, Science Team, Jiji Press Ltd.

2006.12

　The H2A rocket No. 11 loaded with "Kiku No. 8," the heaviest satellite ever launched in Japan, was successfully launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on November 18, 2006. This is the first ...[more]

Masashi Kimura
Professor, Nihon University College of Art

2006.12

　More than 20 years have passed since 1985, when I returned triumphantly to Japan from the U.S. as a scientific illustrator. At the time, few people had heard of this occupation, and I can't really ...[more]

Hajime Hikino
Chief Science Editor of the Tokyo Shimbun and Chunichi Shimbun

2006.11

　I became a newspaper journalist after working for 10 years as an engineer at a major manufacturer of machinery. Apart from a year and half spent studying in France, I spent the entire time working ...[more]

2006.11

　Until the middle of the 19th century, most running horses in pictures were painted with at least one of their legs on the ground. In those days, people had no other means of painting pictures than ...[more]

Yoshio Nishimura
Visiting Professor, M.A. Program for Journalist Education in Science and Technology, Waseda University

2006.11

　This essence of this is that "the Internet is transforming from being a medium in which large numbers of unspecified people (or companies) receive services passively, to one for which technologies ...[more]