Interviews & Opinions

2025.09.11

From Judo Matches to Esports Arenas: Unlocking the Secrets of Modern Brain Fatigue

2025.09.05

The expansion of neuroscience research: Pushing the boundaries of medicine, sports, and culture

2025.09.04

Brain plasticity opens the future: The challenge of surpassing pianists' limits

2025.08.06

Elucidating the mechanism by which plants activate their immune system: Toward the development of agricultural methods to suppress disease outbreaks caused by rain

2025.07.30

Interview with Yutaka Hishiyama: The future of life sciences in Japan — Should aim for a different path from Europe and America

2025.07.22

Interview with Kenji Okami on his appointment as Dean of Tokai University School of Medicine: 50th anniversary of its founding and beyond

2025.07.11

Healthy sleep is extremely important for health - Masashi Yanagisawa, Director and Professor, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba

2025.07.04

Proposing IT-based "Health Behavior Security" — Protecting modern people vulnerable to temptation from health risks

2025.05.01

Developing 3D technology to stack small chips: Opening a new era of semiconductors from Japan

2025.04.23

Understanding and manipulating cell functions: Aiming for next-generation therapies with fewer adverse effects

2025.04.08

Introducing formal semantics to natural language processing: Achieving trusted AI by demonstrating grounds for decision-making

2025.03.31

Using offshore observation to pioneer a new tsunami warning method - Interview with JAMSTEC Researcher Wang Yuchen

2025.03.19

Mathematical modelling at the junction of math, medicine, and life science: An interview with Professor Sungrim Seirin-Lee of Kyoto University

2025.02.18

Engineering green solutions for global agriculture: An interview with Associate Professor Tofael Ahamed of the University of Tsukuba

2025.02.12

Deciphering past environmental history from shells and bones of organisms — Aiming to establish a high-precision isotope analysis technology

2025.01.10

Studying the immune mechanisms of kuruma shrimp and investigation of the potential of Japanese aquaculture

2025.01.09

Interview with Toshiko Abe, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology — Clear distinction between education and research, the importance of advancing one's field of expertise and university salaries

2025.01.08

Proactively promoting the importance of innovation and Japan's strengths: Interview with Minoru Kiuchi, Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy

2024.12.16

Searching for the origin of life through "organic astrochemistry": Detecting microorganisms from small amounts of Martian particles

2024.11.27

Tackling the mystery of organ regeneration in plants: From elucidating mechanisms to improving tissue culture efficiency

2024.10.09

Developing artificial materials to control terahertz waves: Dreams of realizing ultraefficient communication devices

2024.09.10

Using data science to understand the present: Supporting global health policymaking

2024.08.23

From the long white cloud to the rising sun: Insights from a Kiwi scientist's experience in Japan