The Sankei Shimbun and JAPAN Forward recently caught up with Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, to...
One of the hot topics over the last few months in Japan has been the low coronavirus test rate using PCR (Polymerase Chain...
There is a movement in Japan and the United States to connect supercomputers to study the novel coronavirus, which is raging through the world....
Tattoos NG at gyms in Japan Last week, a friend of mine, a 22-year-old undergrad student at Kyoto University of Art and Design, wanted to...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Akira Yoshino, together with Stanley Whittingham and John Goodenough, for their...
Canadian poet Clea Roberts will be performing her poetic readings at Kyoto University on Friday afternoon, September 13, as part of her special reading tour...
A team of researchers led by Osaka University Professor Koji Nishida has successfully treated an eye disease patient by transplanting artificially-cultured corneal cells derived from...
Every time Tasuku Honjo is asked about the motivating force for his research, he says offhand, “It’s definitely my sense of curiosity, a feeling...
Barry Barankin In the summer of 2015, I joined two colleagues and 22 students on a two-week trip to Japan. I was then...
On January 22, it was revealed that an assistant professor at Kyoto University’s Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA – headed by Shinya...
