Kazunari Sasaki
Chief Professor, Kyushu University, Director, Next-Generation Fuel Cell Research Center

2012.2

Since recent energy issues and global warming measures have become major international issues, expectations on commercializing fuel cells have been increasing. The biggest feature of a fuel cell is ...[more]

Nobuo Mimura
Assistant Vice President, Ibaraki University and Director, Institute for Global Change Adaptation Science

2012.1

2011 was in retrospect, a historic year of major disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami in March, the heavy rainfalls and mudslides in the Kii Peninsula caused by Typhoon No. 12 in September, ...[more]

Shigemi Oshida
Emeritus Professor (Forensic Medicine), Nihon University

2012.1

I was appointed as an assistant in 1968 and later as an Assistant Professor of the Division of Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, Tohoku University and had been engaged in forensic autopsies in ...[more]

Yoshio Shioya,
Science Journalist

2012.1

There is no other document that condenses or embodies more clearly the immaturity and non-scientific levels hidden within the Japanese society than this. The interim report on the Fukushima Daiichi ...[more]

Masayasu Miyabayashi,
Professor/Vice-President of the Chiba Institute of Science, Former Director of the Nuclear Safety Bureau of the Science and Technology Agency

2011.12

The so-called “3.11 (March 11, 2011),” or the Great East Japan Earthquake and the accompanying Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, have had a profound impact, not only on the ...[more]

Haruo Kurasawa,
Science Journalist

2011.12

“Safety measures” start to lead to accidents at precisely the moment we think “this is sufficient.” This is the way “safety” goes. According to the famous ...[more]

Itsuro Nishimoto
Little eArth Corporation Co., Ltd. (LAC)

2011.11

“The defense industry is in danger!” “National secrets are targeted!” “Cyber spy?” etc. are phrases that are reported day after day in the major newspapers and on ...[more]

HidefumiKurasaka
Professor at the GraduateSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences, ChibaUniversity

2011.11

In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident resulting from the Tohoku Earthquake on March 11, a review of Japan’s energy policy from a renewed perspectivehas begun. Japan ...[more]

Isami Kinoshita
Professor at the Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, and Chairman of the Subcommittee for Policy Proposals, a section for environment for children’s growth in the Science Council of Japan

2011.11

"Whether or not its children are happy is usually a good indication of whether or not a country’s society and politics are sound" is the slogan of "Child Friendly Cities", ...[more]

Katsunori Iha
Global Footprint Network Research Economist

2011.11

Global Footprint Network announced that “Earth Overshoot Day” this year fell on September 27^th, the day when human demand exceeded the regenerative capacity of the natural ...[more]