In his 2019 State of the Union address, President Trump stressed the importance of investing in cutting-edge industries of the future. On February 11, the President signed an executive order to encourage further AI research and development. AI technologies are already transforming nearly every area of our lives. Even now at the earliest stages of ...
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 13 February, 2019 | Topics:
News, President of the United States, Science & Tech
The latest robotic visitor to Mars, NASA’s InSight lander, successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 458 million kilometer journey from Earth. InSight’s two-year mission will be to study the deep interior of Mars to learn how rocky celestial bodies formed, including Earth and the Moon.
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 28 November, 2018 | Topics:
News, Science & Tech
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018 was awarded jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation. Ambassador Hagerty
tweeted his congratulations to the American and Japanese scientists saying, “Congrats to both James Allison and Tasuku Honjo on your Nobel Prize! ...
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 3 October, 2018 | Topics:
News, Science & Tech, U.S. & Japan
Katherine Johnson, a trailblazing mathematician whose calculations were instrumental in every major NASA spaceflight program, celebrated her 100th birthday on August 26. One of her colleagues at NASA said, “It’s an important story – how she empowered women of all races. And she encouraged kids to learn. She influenced culture here at NASA, but also ...
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 29 August, 2018 | Topics:
Gender Issues, News, Science & Tech
For the first time since NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in 2011, American astronauts will once again travel to the International Space Station from U.S. soil. The U.S. space agency, on August 3, named the teams of astronauts who will fly aboard the first “commercial crew missions” to and from low Earth orbit. This ...
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 6 August, 2018 | Topics:
News, Science & Tech
Pursuant to their shared goal of continuing to advance bilateral space cooperation and further strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance as declared by their leaders, the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Japan held their Fifth Meeting of the Comprehensive Dialogue on Space in Tokyo, on July 20, 2018. This Dialogue represents ...
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 24 July, 2018 | Topics:
News, Science & Tech, U.S. & Japan
Ambassador Bill Hagerty attended the Cyber3 Conference at Keio University on October 5, speaking about the need for cyber-tech cooperation among industry, government, academia, and civil society.
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 11 October, 2017 | Topics:
Ambassador, News, Science & Tech
This week you can be part of the biggest space event on Earth. Cities around the world are hosting thousands of space events October 4–10 to celebrate World Space Week. Vice President Mike Pence also announced, at the first meeting of our reconstituted National Space Council: “We will return American astronauts to the moon.”
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 6 October, 2017 | Topics:
News, Science & Tech, Vice President of the United States
The fifth Japan-U.S. Cyber Dialogue was held on July 20-21 in Tokyo to further expand bilateral security cooperation. The United States and Japan released a
statement highlighting the outcomes of the Dialogue.
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 25 July, 2017 | Topics:
News, Science & Tech
On May 16, the U.S. and Japan held their fourth meeting of the Comprehensive Dialogue on Space in Washington, D.C., advancing a long history of space cooperation between our two nations. This fourth Comprehensive Dialogue on Space continues the work to enhance and strengthen cooperation between the two countries from a broad, inclusive, and strategic ...
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 19 May, 2017 | Topics:
Science & Tech, U.S. & Japan
Between 5 million and 12 million metric tons of plastic trash are dumped into the ocean every year. Waste plastic can harm a range of sea life from shore birds to whales. And when it breaks down into tiny pieces, it ends up in the stomachs of fish. So when we eat fish, some of ...
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 21 April, 2017 | Topics:
News, Our Ocean, Science & Tech
On January 26, Fukuoka Consulate Principal Officer Joy Sakurai delivered remarks at a ceremony commemorating the first Japanese-American astronaut, Ellison Onizuka. Onizuka, whose hometown is Kealakekua, Hawaii, was killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. Onizuka’s grandparents were from the town of Ukiha.
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 30 January, 2017 | Topics:
Fukuoka, Science & Tech, U.S. & Japan
Jeanette Epps will board the International Space Station in May 2018 as the first African-American crew member. During her six-month space mission, the aerospace engineer from Syracuse, New York, will conduct research and perform experiments that will build toward NASA’s journey to Mars.
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By U.S. Mission Japan | 26 January, 2017 | Topics:
News, Science & Tech
