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We live our day-to-day lives benefiting from various technologies. And yet we rarely stop to think about how such technologies came about, or what kind of imagination and effort went into their conception. Occasionally an award such as the ...

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"It was a very worthwhile trip, and I learnt a lot." University Prof. Ryoji Noyori was talking about his first visit to Uzbekistan, as he waited at Incheon Airport for his connecting flight to Japan on September 1st. Noyori fitted this trip...

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The Nobel Committee has announced all the 2017 Nobel Prize winners, and this year, for the second year in a row, no women were found among the winners. In the press conference held after the announcement of the Prize in Economic Sciences, t...

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 News came out late last January that Yoshinori Ohsumi, Honorary Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine last year, donated his 100 million yen in prize money to Tokyo Tech and establishe...

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Atsuko TSUJI

Earned B.A. in Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo in 1976. Joined The Asahi Shimbun Company in 1979 as a journalist and wrote many articles in science and technology area for newspaper and magazines...[read more] published by the company including editorial pieces. Knight Science Journalism Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 and Reuters Fellow at University of Oxford in 2014. Designated Professor of Nagoya University's Institute of International Education and Exchange since October 2016. [close]

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