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Creating an At-will Translator, Studying Sleep and Hibernation: Different Viewpoints Building a New Future: TSUTSUI KEN-ICHIRO × YANAGISAWA MASASHI

Tsutsui Ken-Ichiro is Project Manager (PM) of the JST Moonshot Program Goal 9 project Development of “Jizai Hon-yaku-ki (At-will Translator)” connecting various minds based on brain and body functions, while Yanagisawa Masashi is the PM of

Quantum-computing hardware development: From dream to reality—AOKI TAKAO×FURUTA AYA

Project Manager (PM) Aoki Takao leads Large-scale quantum hardware based on nanofiber cavity QED, a Moonshot Goal 6 project pursuing a totally new approach to quantum computing. It was in 2020, with his laboratory shut down by the COVID-19

Nanofiber cavity QED: A highlyoriginal idea comes closer to fruition—AOKI TAKAO×FURUTA AYA

We are approaching a future world in which anybody and everybody will have access to quantum computers—but just when will this future arrive? Today, several promising approaches to quantum computing are known, but each faces significant hur

Combining eastern and western knowledge to change the states of medicine and society in the future: SAITO SHIGERU×MACHII ERI

"When you examine various diseases, you often see that disease onset occurs suddenly at a particular point in time rather than as a gradual decline in health, slowly giving way to disease. Why is this?” This question was the start of resear

Saving lives from natural disasters caused by guerrilla heavy rain : YAMAGUCHI KOSEI×NISHIJIMA KAZUYOSHI×KURO RABU KYOJU

Project Manager (PM) Yamaguchi Kosei and his colleague Nishijima Kazuyoshi who promotes the project are working on a project titled Heavy Rainfall Control for Living Together with Isolated-Convective Rainstorms and Line-Shaped Rainbands. PM

Weather research involving building researchers: YAMAGUCHI KOSEI×NISHIJIMA KAZUYOSHI×KURO RABU KYOJU

Short, localized outbreaks of torrential rain are sometimes called “guerrilla heavy rain” in Japanese. This is not an official meteorological term, but it aptly describes the sudden and unpredictable nature of such downpours. Guerrilla heav

Science Beyond Limits Ep3: Weather prediction and control

Dr. Le Duc talks about his work at the University of Tokyo where through data assimilation and high powered modelling he and his team are attempting to make the dream of weather control a reality. You Tube Science Japan Duc is a contrib

Thinking about science and technology to assist a “Maemuki” mindset with the head of Euglena, the “Professor of Adversity” : YAMADA MAKIKO × IZUMO MITSURU

Baseball player Ohtani Shohei stresses mental attitude. A “Maemuki” (forward-looking) attitude has the power to light up everyone’s life, opening the door to success. However, a survey by the Nippon Foundation shows that, compared to young

When skillful and clever “AI robot scientists” become partners to humans: HARADA KANAKO × IKEGAMI AKIRA

Working in scientific research tends to require manual dexterity and long working hours. Project manager (PM) Harada Kanako believes that training AI robots to become “clever, skillful scientists” will remove these constraints, achieving a

Science Beyond Limits Ep2: Tech for empathy and accessibility

In this episode of JST’s original podcast Dr. Yun Suen Pai and Dr. Giulia Barbareschi, researchers in Project Cybernetic Being at the Keio School of Media Design in Japan, talk about technology they are working on to enhance empathy and acc

Science Beyond Limits Ep1: Can technology make us happy?

In the first episode of JST’s new original podcast, Dr. Seiji Kumagai talks about his ambition of achieving human health and happiness through technology, with human-computer interaction specialist Dr. Koji Yatani. Available now on YouTube

Achieving Vibrant Aging Societies: Coexisting with Adaptable AI-enabled Robots. A Dialogue between Yasuhisa Hirata x Yoichi Ochiai.

The Moonshot Research and Development Program initiated by the Japanese government aims to create disruptive innovation right here in Japan that promotes challenging research and development. The projects address social issues that are diff

Making Weather Control a Reliable Part of “City Infrastructure”: A Tag Team of Technology and Social Systems - Yohei Sawada x Rui Izumiyama.

The Moonshot Research and Development Program is a large-scale national research program that promotes challenging research and development based on more daring ideas than conventional technologies have offered up until now, and aims to cre

[Part 2] Ryota Kanai x Michiaki Matsushima Moonshot Dialogue: Toward a Future of Better Mutual Understanding — The Potential of BMI-CA.

This is the second half of the epic conversation between project manager Ryota Kanai, leader of Moonshot Goal 1, which aims for the "realization of a society in which human beings can be free from limitations of body, brain, space, and time