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Tokyo Institute of Technology was founded by the government of Japan as the Tokyo Vocational School on May 26, 1881, [3] 14 years after the Meiji Restoration.To accomplish the quick catch-up to the West, the government expected this school to cultivate new modernized craftsmen and engineers.
Yoshinori Ohsumi – Nobel laureate (Medicine, 2016); Hideki Shirakawa (BSc 1961, PhD 1966) – Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 2000) [1]; Pailin Chuchottaworn – former CEO and president of PTT, founder and chairman of Kamnoetvidya Science Academy [2] [3] [4]
The following is a list of current and historical women's universities and colleges in Japan. A women's college is an institution of higher education where enrollment is all-female. Most of these are private universities ; a few are funded by the prefectural governments; the only two funded by the national government are Nara and Ochanomizu .
Images of a Woman was painted over three nights in July 1966 in a Tokyo Hilton suite where all four of the Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) were staying as part of their tour of the Far East. The group had been placed in lockdown as a precaution by the Japanese authorities after death threats had been ...
1980 - first woman elected to the Science Council of Japan. 1981 - won the Avon Special Prize for Women, for researching peaceful uses of nuclear power and raising the status of women scientists. 1981 - established the Saruhashi Prize, given yearly to a female scientist who serves as a role model for younger women scientists. [2]
Women 2.0; Women in Tech; Women in Tech Africa; Women in Technology International; Women in telegraphy; Women's Trade Union League This page was last edited on 9 ...
LinuxChix, an international organization for women who use Linux and women and men who want to support women in computing, was founded by Deb Richardson. [118] Marissa Mayer, was the first female engineer hired at Google, and was later named vice president of Search Product and User Experience. She was formerly the CEO of Yahoo!. [citation needed]
Tetsu Yasui, from a 1923 publication Tetsu Yasui (centre), with Rajini School students, Thailand c. 1904–1906. Yasui was born in 1870 in Tokyo. [1] Her father was a weapons instructor to Doi Toshimoto, a daimyō of Koga Domain.