{"id":1339,"date":"2012-10-12T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/2012\/10\/12\/okinawa-institute-of-science-and-technology-oist-and-the-science-and-technology-society-sts-forum-in\/"},"modified":"2014-10-01T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T00:46:02","slug":"okinawa-institute-of-science-and-technology-oist-and-the-science-and-technology-society-sts-forum-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/2012\/10\/okinawa-institute-of-science-and-technology-oist-and-the-science-and-technology-society-sts-forum-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and the Science and Technology Society (STS) Forum in Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/jp\/2012\/10\/%E6%B2%96%E7%B8%84%E7%A7%91%E5%AD%A6%E6%8A%80%E8%A1%93%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%A6%E9%99%A2%E3%81%9D%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E3%81%AEsts-forum%E3%81%B8.html\" target=\"_self\">\u2192Japanese<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oist.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)<\/a> is a completely new research graduate school in Japan, and out of many students who have received the support of the world, thirty-four students have matriculated.&#160; <a href=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/2011\/01\/lets-go-to-the-oist-symposium-and-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\">I have supported this project from the beginning<\/a>.&#160; It is a graduate school very different from those in the past in Japan, as over half of the professors, research staff and students have come from abroad.&#160; Of course, the official language is English.<\/p>\n<p>The buildings are also designed with this new spirit and there is also a four o\u2019clock tea that is held once a week and creates time for everyone to come together.<\/p>\n<p>I left for Okinawa the next day after <a href=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/2012\/10\/national-diet-of-japan-fukushima-nuclear-accident-independent-investigation-commission-naiic-10-talk.html\" target=\"_blank\">my talk at the Harvard Club of Japan<\/a>.&#160; I came to take part in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oist.jp\/pressrelease\/board-governors-congratulates-oist-progress\" target=\"_blank\">the OIST board members meeting<\/a>. &#160;At the board meeting, there was a reporting of activities and discussion of several topics.&#160; Later, I visited some research rooms and met with the new students.<\/p>\n<p>Nice research rooms, offices, lecture halls, dormitories and the beautiful weather and the blue sea are all here.&#160; All of this and many excellent programs welcome young people who wish to embark on a research path.<\/p>\n<p>After staying for two nights, I took the last flight back to Tokyo.&#160; The next morning, I went to Kyoto, where I took part in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stsforum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Science and Technology Society (STS) Form<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/2011\/10\/from-paris-to-kyoto-attending-the-sts-forum.html\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a>).&#160; I was reunited with many friends and have attended every year, as it is also a good place to meet new people.<\/p>\n<p>Time flies and this is now the ninth year that I have attended the STS Forum. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2192Japanese The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) is a completely new research graduate school in Japan, and out of many students who have received the support of the world, thirty-four students have matriculated.&#160; I have supported this project from the beginning.&#160; It is a graduate school very different from those in the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[25,13,31,18,9,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kiyoshikurokawa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}