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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]
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.
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]
Japan also sends several astronauts to work in the ISS and help other international collaborators with space research and technology transfers. Since 1990, twelve Japanese individuals have participated in space flights, two of whom were women. Two Japanese astronauts also served as commanders of the ISS, with the last being Akihiko Hoshide. [2]
Selina Y. Wang (born May 8, 1993) is an American television journalist and reporter, who has served as senior White House Correspondent for ABC News since August 2023. [3] [5] [6] She was previously CNN's international correspondent based in Beijing and Tokyo. [7]
He became an associate professor in 1993. In 2000, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) as a professor in the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory. In 2016, he became the director-general of Institute of Innovative Research at Tokyo Tech. In 2018, he was named president of Tokyo Tech. [5]
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