Kiyoshi Kurokawa's blog
2012/01/25 | By IMPACT Japan
MIT Media Lab is well known throughout the world and in Japan as a quite “obstinate” existence in that it aims to “Build the Future”. The existence of this Lab is well recognized by the world for this unique character.
It was last year that Mr. Joi Ito (Ref.1), a Japanese, but rather more popular as a “global citizen”, was appointed to be the director of… Read more >>
Kiyoshi Kurokawa's blog
2012/01/10 | By IMPACT Japan
I have posted two columns under this title since the New Year’s day. Reports about this committee also appears in the English version of Japanese medias, so I received a number of messages and e-mails from my friends living abroad as well.
English reports appear on Yomiuri and Kyodo, for example. I believe there are more, if you search for them….
I also intend to express my… Read more >>
Kiyoshi Kurokawa's blog
2012/01/10 | By IMPACT Japan
As I reported on the New Year’s day, the “Committee of Parliament to Investigate the Accident at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants” was launched officially on December 8th last year. On this day, the nine committee members and I received the official notice of appointment at the Parliament from the Presidents of both the House of Representatives and the House of Councilors. This ceremony was followed by a session where the… Read more >>
Kiyoshi Kurokawa's blog
2012/01/09 | By IMPACT Japan
A Happy New Year.
During the past month, i.e. since December 6th of last year, I have not written any new columns nor did send any messages via twitter.
The reason is, as you may already know, that I was suddenly appointed to chair the “Committee to investigate the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants”. The relevant laws for creating a committee that… Read more >>
Kiyoshi Kurokawa's blog
2011/12/13 | By IMPACT Japan
I think many people feel that the credibility of Japan has fallen sharply after the event of “3.11 Fukushima”. I also regret to say that we do not see any signs yet of trust in Japan recovering. Why is this so? The recent issues of TPP or Olympus could be examples of reasons for such mistrust.
On the other hand, we witnessed how the people at the “3.11” stricken area… Read more >>
Kiyoshi Kurokawa's blog
2011/12/12 | By IMPACT Japan
A week after Seoul and Okinawa, I flew to Taipei. I was invited to give a plenary lecture at the Society of Internal Medicine in Taiwan. Another invited speaker was Dr. Virginina Hood , the president of the American College of Physicians whom, by the way, I happened to see in San Diego this April.
In the Sunday afternoon, I made an excursion to Read more >>
William H. Saito's Official Blog
2011/12/05 | By IMPACT Japan
As a speaker at the last two St. Gallen Symposium, I cannot recommend enough how valuable an experience it is to attend this event. If you are a graduate student who understands the importance of interacting in a global community and discussing very current issues with your peers from around the world, this is the event for you.
The St. Gallen Symposium, a conference organised by the International Students’… Read more >>
Kiyoshi Kurokawa's blog
2011/11/24 | By IMPACT Japan
I have introduced OIST (Ref.1) to you several time in this site. Now, OIST is officially approved as a graduate university starting from November 1st, since the government has given permission.
In Japan, as well as in other countries, we have been discussing much about the reform of universities or researches to address today’s needs. However, at least from my perspectives, nothing has changed… Read more >>
Kiyoshi Kurokawa's blog
2011/11/22 | By IMPACT Japan
The problem of “Drug Lag” in Japan – that approval of pharmaceutical products take longer time and thus is behind western countries – had been being pointed out by many since quite a while ago.
One of the endeavors to address this issue is “ICH -International Conference of Harmonization”, a conference launched about 20 years ago by Japan, USA, and EU. It continues its activities to date, and I… Read more >>
Kiyoshi Kurokawa's blog
2011/11/21 | By IMPACT Japan
CSIS is a famous Think Tank located in Washington D.C. which is well known among Japanese. Our Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) has worked with CSIS on a number of joint projects beginning last year as I have previously talked about on this site.
In the early days of this year, HGPI together with CSIS engaged in various activities including meetings with members of the… Read more >>
