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Surprised, I had to ask again. "What? A Buddhist memorial service every month?" Exactly six years after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, on the Saturday afternoon of March 11 this year I was at a talk in the gallery of the Disast...
March 10, 2017
As they say, you have to see it to believe it. We hear a lot about the Trump administration's denial of climate change and negative stance towards science in general. But my mid-February trip to the annual meeting of the American Associati...
February 20, 2017
The NHK morning news on January 31 spotlighted the legislative assistance program of Nagoya University's School of Law in a segment titled, "Taking Japan's Constitution to Developing Countries." The segment, which aired nationwide for more...
February 6, 2017
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...
January 23, 2017
Parting ways with the newspaper company where I had worked many years as a science reporter, I arrived at Nagoya University in October last year. My new position is with the International Collaboration Planning Center, a sub-organization o...
Atsuko TSUJIEarned 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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