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February 27, 2020

The Age of AI Is Coming

"When you look at the list of leading research institutes and universities in artificial intelligence research, Japan is nowhere to be found," points out Sadaoki Furui, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Toyota Technological Institute at...

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The asteroid explorer Hayabusa2 of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully touched down for its second time on the asteroid Ryugu. It was confirmed that rock samples had been collected during the first landing, so any maj...

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Nishio City's Iwase Bunko Library is currently holding an exhibition titled "There's a book like this!" The subtitle is "Iwase Bunko Heisei Comprehensive Survey Interim Report Exhibition 16". This is momentarily perplexing, but according to...

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On the southern edge of Nagoya University's Higashiyama Campus, facing the Yamate Green Road, is a building surrounded by trees that doesn't look like part of the university. This is the Nagoya University Gender Research Library, which open...

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December 28, 2017

Are Law Scholars Disappearing?

This past fall, an event was held at the Hanoi Law University in Vietnam to mark the 10-year anniversary of the foundation of the Nagoya University Research and Education Center for Japanese Law (CJL), an institution that provides Vietnames...

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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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