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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

[Part 1] Ryota Kanai x Michiaki Matsushima Moonshot Dialogue: Expanding The Relationship Between Brain and Body via BMI-CA.

The Moonshot Goal 1 aims for the "realization of a society in which human beings can be free from limitations of body, brain, space, and time by 2050." To achieve this, research and development spanning various fields of technology has begu

From Okinawa to the World – Two Researchers go for a moonshot at OIST: Hiroki Takahashi x Katsuhiko Miyazaki

The Moonshot Research and Development Program is a large-scale national research program that aims to create disruptive innovation by promoting challenging research and development based on bold ideas that go beyond the prospects of convent

【Friday September 30th 2022, 10:30-18:15~】Moonshot Goal 1: The Second International Symposium on Cybernetic Avatars

Hello! This is Hikaru from the Moonshot PR team. On September 30, 2022 (Friday), “Moonshot Goal 1: The Second International Symposium on Cybernetic Avatars” will be held at Campus Plaza Kyoto and online. Please registrer below by the dead

Is ‘fault-tolerant’ quantum computing coming sooner than expected?

Hello! This is Robert from the Moonshot PR team. Today we bring you a special interview with Professor Masahiro Kitagawa, the Program Director for Moonshot Goal 6: "Realization of a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer that will revol