As an Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student, I became inspired to switch fields and conduct research on the origins o...

Before arriving, I had heard an intimidating range of words used to describe the land of the rising sun. Having never ev...

Suddenly the hot and humid summer of Japan has started. But this does not have to mean that there is only suffering! I w...

Culture shock was one of the things I worried about when I left Japan to do a graduate study in North America. Surprisin...

A few times I have been asked by colleagues why I decided to move to Japan and do science there rather than in Europe or...