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National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
02 Apr 2012
The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) announced on 6th March 2012 that an international research team led by Professor Takao Someya has succeeded in manufacturing the world’s first flexible organic transistor on a polymeric film.
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
02 Apr 2012
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) announced that they have developed a current-injection photonic-crystal laser with ultralow power consumption, which can be applicable to both off-chip and on-chip optical data transmission for microprocessors.
Nature Publishing Group
01 Apr 2012
Latest news from Nature and the Nature journals 02 April 2012
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
30 Mar 2012
Young talents from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)'s School of Design (SD) have shown their creativity and prowess in social innovations.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
In the Osaka mayoral election held on November 27 last year, the former Governor of Osaka Toru Hashimoto won an overwhelming victory over incumbent Kunio Hiramatsu.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
A voice is directed at those nearby and reaches them. That is probably what poems were in the first place. Or else words written on paper. And to reach people, they had to be transcribed again and again. And so printing machines came into being to replace the human hand. And so more time became necessary to get the words to the people.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
Japan was stricken by a triple crisis of mega earthquakes, monster tsunami, and nuclear meltdown at Fukushima.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
The Great East Japan Earthquake has dramatically altered the way the Japanese economy is seen. For example, the way that housing and real estate values are seen in Japan has changed since 3.11. Location value is what determines the values of homes and real estate.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
Conserving electricity is an absolute necessity due to the power shortage associated with the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
This earthquake and the tsunami claimed the lives of a large number of persons with disabilities.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
About 30 years ago, I drove northward from Sotobo in Chiba along the coastline in Fukushima and Miyagi as far as accessible by road, passing through inland areas in Iwate to Miyako again, and went up north to the Shimokita Peninsula.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
About 30 years ago, I drove northward from Sotobo in Chiba along the coastline in Fukushima and Miyagi as far as accessible by road, passing through inland areas in Iwate to Miyako again, and went up north to the Shimokita Peninsula.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
The accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant caused by the East Japan Great Earthquake Disaster has made it necessary to fundamentally revise the existing nuclear-centric energy policy.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
It will be hot this summer. This is not a prediction that this summer will be as hot as last summer, but it does mean that the temperature will be higher in offices and homes to conserve energy.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
Buildings have service lives. This seems obvious to Japanese, but might be seen as strange by Westerners.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
Every stricken area I saw from the air on March 19 was covered with mud and had turned grey.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
Although the people in the coastal areas there had the highest awareness of tsunamis in the nation, many of them could not run in time from the tsunami that far exceeded their expectations, reaching more than ten meters in height, claiming the lives of many victims, and leaving nothing but piles of rubble.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
On May 1st—some 50 days after the Eastern Japan Great Earthquake Disaster—we visited Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture, which was severely affected by tsunamis, to conduct surveys and collect information on the earthquake disaster and the media.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
A vast expanse of land has been reclaimed along the coastal areas in Japan’s large urban areas, Tokyo Bay, Ise Bay, and Osaka Bay.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
For a century, Japanese electric power utilities (electric power companies) have been striving to build electric power systems that can stably supply consumers with high-quality electric power at low rates, which is a very difficult task.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
The TEPCO Fukushima accident caused severe trouble for the public, beginning with the citizens of Fukushima prefecture, and we must ensure that an accident such as this never occurs again.
Waseda University
30 Mar 2012
On March 11, 2011, on the campus of Waseda University in Shinjuku, Tokyo, those in laboratories and study rooms on some floors experienced such incredible shaking that they could not stay on their feet. We, on the staff of the Science Media Centre (SMC), also evacuated outdoors.
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
30 Mar 2012
Nano Characterization Unit of Advanced Key Technologies Division in NIMS and the State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Zhejiang University, have agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the research and development in the field of novel low-dimensional nanomaterials.
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
30 Mar 2012
On 5th Mar, 2012, The High Temperature Materials Unit at Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), concluded a Memorandum of Understanding MOU concerning "Protection of materials against oxidation and hot corrosion" with DECHEMA Forschungsinstitut (DFI), Germany.
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
30 Mar 2012
In an effort to ensure a culture of recycling for a greener campus, the Department of Biology at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) organised Recyling Awareness Week in collaboration with Coca-Cola Malaysia.
RIKEN
30 Mar 2012
A central regulator of the inflammatory response shows signs as an appealing target for therapies against autoimmune disease
RIKEN
30 Mar 2012
Human attention to a particular portion of an image alters the way the brain processes visual cortex responses to that image
RIKEN
30 Mar 2012
A newly discovered enzyme brings scientists one step closer to understanding how plants manufacture a molecule with potent medicinal properties
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
29 Mar 2012
A team of scientists from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has made a novel discovery regarding the molecular structure of a protein that plays a crucial regulatory role in the “autophagy” cellular process. This breakthrough has paved the way for researchers to target “autophagy” for potential treatment of cancer and other diseases.