Miwako Ozaki
Professor of Waseda University

2009.12

There have been policies with the name of “Special Zone” in the past. As far as I can remember, there was a policy on Special Zones for Structural Reform which was implemented during the Koizumi ...[more]

Takaharu Oda
Professor of Yamagata University, Faculty of Education, Art and Science

2009.11

On May 25, 2009, a video teaching material that we produced to improve our classes titled “Amazing Collection of University Class Don’ts” was picked up sensationally by the evening edition of The ...[more]

Kenji Ohyama
Professor of University of Yamanashi, Department of Research Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering Science

2009.11

In 1990, it was found that a gene consisting of 79 amino acids, which is a sex-determining factor, exists in the short arm of the Y chromosome. During the next 20 years, there has been a rapid ...[more]

Amane Koizumi
Associate professor of the Section for Communication and Public Liaison at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences

2009.11

These days, a momentum is growing within the researchers’ community on public relations of science that presents science to the public in an easily comprehensible way, or scientific communication to ...[more]

Koichi Kitazawa
President of Japan Science and Technology Agency

2009.10

In this summer, I expect the Japanese economy to recover by the investment to the domestic environmental ...[more]

Motoi Yoshioka
Professor at the Graduate School/Faculty of Bioresources, Mie University

2009.10

In this summer, there may have been more than a few people who saw wild whales or dolphins in the sea, either in Japan or abroad. Also, there were probably people who visited aquariums and saw ...[more]

Toshimitsu Komatsu
Professor, Graduate School of Kyushu University

2009.10

The flood/mudslide disasters in Fukuoka/Yamaguchi prefectures at the end of this July and the flood disaster of Sayo River in Hyogo prefecture in August make us realize that the external forces of ...[more]

Katsunori Matsuoka
Deputy Director of the Planning Division at Planning Headquarters, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

2009.09

The advancement of science and technology in the 20th century made our daily lives more convenient and comfortable. Science and technology in the future will probably provide a life service which ...[more]

Takeei Koizumi
Professor of Tokyo Gakugei University

2009.09

On August 24, the three locations of Itoigawa, Lake Toya/Mt. Usu, and Shimabara Peninsula were approved for registration as Global Geoparks. This gives me great pleasure as one who is involved in ...[more]

Taketo Sakuma
President of Kochi University of Technology

2009.09

Japan is being called a nation built on science and technology. This is based on the recognition that promoting science and technology is imperative to maintain a prosperous future society in Japan ...[more]