The strategic importance of STI is growing in today's society, and countries are competing to achieve excellence in this field.

Promoting international research mobility and creating international talent circulation is an essential condition for robust research and development. To this end, it is important to internationalize the research ecosystem, promote international human resource exchange, and ensure that Japan is firmly integrated into the international brain circulation network.

In this installment of the special feature "Researchers from across the sea," we introduce Dr. Jinhua Ye, a top researcher at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), who pursues the various potential cutting‐edge uses of photocatalysis as leader of the Photocatalytic Materials Group.

An academic field that spans the humanities and sciences and integrates the two is a symbol of a new era.

Promoting international research mobility and creating international talent circulation is an essential condition for robust research and development.

This installment of Science Portal's special feature "Researchers from across the sea," introduces Anh‐Van Ho, Associate Professor in the Human Information Science Research Area, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST).

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has published a report that predicting that even if the world achieves its goal of limiting the temperature rise to 1.5 ℃ higher than pre‐industrial levels "Sea levels will continue to rise for the next 2,000 years, with a maximum rise of 3 m."