2021.10.5

It was fine and rather warm.

I have just heard that Prof. Shukuro Manabe, 90 years old,  will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics. Congratulations!!

Mr. Fumio Kishida became the 100th Prime Minister and the new cabinet was organized yesterday. There are 13 new ministers who joined the cabinet for the first time.  The youngest is 44 years old, and the oldest is 77 years old. There are three women out of 21 ministers.

At night I attended a monthly zoom meeting about number secret.

2019.10.9

It was fine.

I attended the research positioning meeting in the morning. It is exciting to listen to the progress of ongoing research.

Tonight there was a big news. Professor Akira Yoshino will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He researched Lithium ion battery at a Japanese Company, Asahi Kasei. He is 71 years old. From the TV interview we know he is a nice guy. His smile is so nice. He mentioned the importance of persistency and flexibility. He is the 27th Japanese winner and the 8th in Chemistry after 9 years. Congratulations!

2016.10.3

It was a rainy day.

It seems another typhoon No.18 is approaching. Many warnings were announced.

From today the new NHK's morning drama started. Its title is "Beppin san(べっぴんさん)" specially made goods.

The season of the Nobel Prize has come. There is a good news. Mr. Yoshinori Osumi(大隅良典), 71 years old, has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research of autophagy.
Japanese researchers have been awarded for three years straight.
Congratulations!!

2015.10.6

It was cloudy and cool.

Yesterday we were very pleased to hear that a Japanese researcher, professor emeritus Satoshi Omura (大村 智 80 years old) would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
And today another professor Takaaki Kajita (梶田 隆章 56 years old) was announced to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Congratulations!!

ノーベル賞授賞式（noberu sho jyusho shiki）：Nobel Awards Ceremony

December 10 is known as the day of award ceremony of the Nobel Prize. There were no Japanese Nobel Prize winners this year. Therefore news were only focused on the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, that is, the US president Mr. Barack Obama. The ceremony was held in Oslo, Norway.
His speech was on air at the news and appeared on the Internet too. As he said in his remarks, compared to some of the giants in the history such as Schweitzer, King, Marshall, and Mandela, his accomplishments seems slight.
Among the Nobel Peace Prize winners, Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai from Kenya in 2004 is the most impressive person for me. She promoted the concept of Japanese word mottainai (もったいない) as a term that is roughly equivalent to the English phrase "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". I have been to her honorable degree award ceremony in the Waseda University in Feb. 2006.
Among all the Nobel Prize winners, Dr. Esaki Leo (江崎玲於奈) is very special for me, because I escorted Mr. and Mrs. Esaki at the Expo '92 in Seville.