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Tatsuya Tsujimura
For Tatsuya Tsujimura's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 5, 2015
Pediatrician advocates use of 'evidence-based medicine' in Japan
A Tokyo pediatrician is working to promote "evidence-based medicine" and ensure that medical treatments used in Japan are backed by the highest-quality international research.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2014
Japanese docs trying to stop all asbestos use in Asia
Japanese doctors are stepping up efforts to help Asia's developing economies stop using asbestos, sharing knowledge bitterly learned in Japan about the serious and fatal illnesses caused by the material that was used in abundance during the postwar economic boom through the 1970s.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Oct 31, 2014
Japanese doctor helped two Aussies win Nobel in medicine
Naomi Uemura, a 63-year-old physician who specializes in digestive organs, is credited with conducting the tenacious clinical research that helped two Australian doctors win the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2005.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Oct 21, 2014
Japanese IBM engineers produced pioneering network for '64 Tokyo Olympics
Half a century ago, a team of young Japanese IBM engineers built a computerized real-time results service for the Tokyo Olympics, a breakthrough that led to modern-day networks such as ATMs and travel reservation systems.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2014
'Earthquacks' challenged by U.S. expert in Tokyo
Robert Geller, an American seismologist teaching in Japan, has been fighting a lonely battle against what he says is a hopeless national initiative for predicting big earthquakes.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 11, 2014
Physicist leads effort to image melted cores
Haruo Miyadera is spearheading a project to use subatomic particles called muons to peer into the damaged reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2014
Math buffs get fired up over corporate challenges
In an effort to solve real-life problems and apply knowledge that would otherwise be purely academic, Japanese mathematicians have begun boosting their ties to industry.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 4, 2014
Robots challenged to pass Todai examination
If robots with artificial intelligence prove they can outperform humans, will most jobs currently undertaken by people be done by robots instead?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 8, 2013
Engineer devises tiny optical sensor after Nobel triumph
Hiroyuki Kyushima, an engineer at Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. who helped create a particle detector that enabled physicist Masatoshi Koshiba to win the Nobel Prize in physics in 2002, has developed an ultra-small photomultiplier tube together with his fellow workers.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 25, 2006
Hokkaido professor sounds alarm on Siberia forest
A rash of fires has transformed the incredible forest of Siberia from a vast "sink" that absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen into a cause of global warming.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 17, 2006
Computers yet to make quantum leap
Masahiro Kitagawa, a professor of engineering science at Osaka University, clearly remembers the day when he first saw a computer and was overwhelmed by its power.

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