by ZEFeditor
The weather was cold in Japan. It was rainy most of the days. However, we were lucky enough to see some cherry trees blossoming. Their magical pinky colour attracts people from all around who pose in front of them for pictures or gather at nights to eat and drink beer underneath them. We as tourists …
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Interview with Professor Nobuyuki Yagi, who is Associate Professor of Resource Economics and Marine Policy at University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Before joining the University of Tokyo in 2008, he had worked for the Fisheries Agency of the Government of Japan. From 1999 to 2002 he was First Secretary at …
by ZEFeditor
Interview with Professor Kae Miyazawa, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences of the University of Tokyo Ms. Miyazawa, could you tell us something about your research background? Well, I started my career (BSc) in the field of plant ecology at Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan). I was interested in conservational ecology. …
Standing over there waiting for the Skyliner which is similar to the ICE in Germany I would say, the guy who welcomed us at the airport remarks that Tokyo is super clean. He further adds that we are on the right trail, but the train is being cleaned at this moment. “Being cleaned we say? …
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The cooperation on paper becomes real. With the recent signing of two Memoranda of Understanding between the University of Tokyo and the University of Bonn on the one hand and the MoU between ZEF and IPADS on the other, the “strategic international partnership” between the institutions in Japan and Germany has become official. This has …