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FY2020	Spring&Summer #40		Autumn&Winter #41
FY2019	Spring #36	Summer #37	Autumn #38	Winter #39
FY2018	Spring #32	Summer #33	Autumn #34	Winter #35
FY2017	Spring #28	Summer #29	Autumn #30	Winter #31
FY2016	Spring #24	Summer #25	Autumn #26	Winter #27
FY2015	Spring #20	Summer #21	Autumn #22	Winter #23
FY2014	Spring #16	Summer #17	Autumn #18	Winter #19
FY2013	Spring #13	Summer #14	Autumn #15
FY2012	Spring/Summer #11		Autumn/Winter #12
FY2011	Spring #8	Summer/Autumn #9		Winter #10
FY2010	Spring/Summer #6		Autumn/Winter #7
FY2009	Spring #3	Summer/Autumn #4		Winter #5
FY2008			Autumn #1	Winter #2

Spring&Summer #40

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	A big difference in the spread of Covid-19 between Japan and Sweden, despite mild social restrictions in both countries	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
Special Features
	Staff introduction		3
News
	The 4th Norway-Japan academic Network		4
	Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly in Denmark FY2019		4
	Visit to Tallin University and Tallin University ofTechnology, Estonia		5
	The 1st ACF Board Meeting of FY2020		5
Reports
	The 8th Sweden-Japan Academic Network	Yoshifumi Futaana, Docent/Associate Professor, Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF)	6
	The 4th Norway-Japan Academic Network	Shiori Koga, Postdoc, Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Nofima)	7
Reports from Japanese Researchers in the Nordic/Baltic Nations
	Report from a Japanese researcher in Sweden	Asuka Tachi , Visiting researcher , Karolinska Institutet	9
Reports-Alumni
	BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report(SAC)	Püren Güler,Post-doctoral researcher, Örebro University	11
Column
	About the outerspace and childish imagination	Marika Tashima, Liaison Officer, JSPS Stockholm Office	13
Notices
	Open call for applications		14
	Subscribe to JSPS Stockholm Newsletter		14

Winter #39

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Science literacy to antagonize delusive, non-scientific views	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	1
Special Features
	Nobel Week 2019		2
	IVA-JSPS Seminar FY2019 with Dr. Akira Yoshino		6
	ACF 10-year Anniversary Ceremony/All Alumni Meeting	Dr. Kristiina Jokinen, Senior Researcher, AI Research Center of AIST Tokyo Waterfront and former Chair of ACF	7
News
	JANET Forum 2019 in London		10
	MIRAI Seminar 2019		10
	The ACNActivity Seminar FY2019		11
	Japan’s Foreign Minister’s Commendations for FY2019		11
	ACF General Assembly FY2019		12
	Courtesy visit to Chancellor of Helsinki University & Meeting between JSPS Executive Director and ACF board members		12
	The 2nd ACD Board Meeting FY2019		12
	New Year Reception at the Ambassador’s Residence in Sweden		13
	SAC Joint Board Meeting and General Assembly FY2019		13
	The 8th Sweden-Japan Academic Network Seminar		14
	JSPS Europe Offices Deputy Directors Meeting FY2019		14
Reports
	The ACF Activity Seminar FY2019“Biomaterials in cellular and tissue microenvironments”	Michael Gasik, Professor, Aalto University Foundation, Vice Chair of JSPS Alumni Club in Finland	15
	The 2nd SAC Activity Seminar FY2019 “Orthopedic Musculoskeletal Regeneration”	Christer Rolf, Professor, Clintec, Karolinska Institutet (KI)	16
	The ACN Activity Seminar FY2019“Science-based innovation: connecting research and business for a sustainable future”	Munetaka Shimizu, Associate Professor, Hokkaido University	17
Reports — Meetings
	019.12.2 Visit by Prof. Naoto Sekimura from the University of Tokyo		18
	2020.2.4 Visit by Dr. Yoshifumi Futaana from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF)		18
	2020.2.5 Visit by Ms. Hiroko Yoshikawa from the JSPS Headquarters		18
Message from the Alumni Club Chair Members
	The JSPS Alumni Club in Norway (ACN)	Renée Schulz, JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Osaka University	19
Reports from Japanese Researchers in the Nordic/Baltic Nations
	Report from a Japanese researcher in Norway	Nobuto Kaneko, Postdoctoral Fellow, NORCE	21
Column
	A New Perspective on Language Differences	Hedda Hansson, Liaison Officer, JSPS Stockholm Office	23
Academic Information
	Swedish Research Council requests increased appropriations for undirected research and research infrastructure		24
	Former SAC Chair Göran Thor received HM The King’s Medal		24
	Academy of Finland grants 13 million euros for building and developing research infrastructures		24
	Parliament agrees to provide DKK 1.5 billion to green research		25
	Cooperation with the UN on marine plastic litter from shipping and fisheries		25
	Number of higher education institution in Latvia is not optimal		25
	Council for Science, Technology and Innovation to discuss the support for basic research and young scientists		26
	Prototype of Japanese supercomputer Fugaku ranks No.1 in power efficiency		26
	Fine-tuning Japan’s strategy to attract African students		26
	IBM and the University of Tokyo launch quantum computing initiative for Japan		26
Notices
	Call for Applications		27
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		28
	Brochure update｜E-mail Magazine/Newsletter subscription information		29

Autumn #38

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Flight-free movement, then use of Skype, nevertheless necessity of face-to-face meeting	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director of JSPS Stockholm Office	2
Special Features
	Inaugural Ceremony for the Establishment of the JSPS Alumni Club in Norway		3
	JSPS-RCN Joint Seminar FY2019 “The Ocean Brings Us Together!”		5

News
	The 4th Pan Nordic Alumni Club Chair Meeting		7
	Stockholm Innovation Summer School 2019		7
	The 1st SAC Board Meeting FY2019		7
	The 1st SAC Activity Seminar FY2019		8
	JSPS-ETAg Seminar		8
	The 3rd KVA-JSPS Seminar FY2019		9
	The 1st ACN Board Meeting FY2019		9
	The ACD Activity Seminar FY2019 “Lesson Study between Didactical Research and the Teaching Profession”		9
	2019 Nobel Prize Announcements		10
	The ACF Activity Seminar FY2019 “Biomaterials in cellular and tissue microenvironments”		11
	The 2nd SAC Activity Seminar FY2019 “Orthopedic Musculoskeletal Regeneration”		11
Reports
	Summer Program 2019		12
	The 1st SAC Activity Seminar FY2019 “AI in Japan and Sweden”	Elin Palm, Associate Professor, Centre for Applied Ethics, Linköping University, Chair of JSPS Alumni Club in Sweden	16
	JSPS-ETAg Seminar	Hiroshi Kageyama, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University	17
	The 3rd KVA-JSPS Seminar FY2019	Yasunobu Nakamura, Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo/ Team Leader, Superconducng Quantum Electronics Research Team, RIKEN Center for Emergent Maer Science	18
	The ACD Activity Seminar FY2019 The anthropological theory of the didactic as a link between Japan and Denmark	Koji Otaki, Lecturer, Department of Teachers Training, Hokkaido University of Educaon	19
	JSPS-RCN Joint Seminar FY2019	Takashi Kikuchi, Director, Instute of Arcc Climate and Environment Research, Research Instute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (IACE/ RIGC/JAMSTEC)	20
	Meetings		21
Column
	Between Swedish and Japanese	Tomoko Svedlund Ishii, Liaison Officer, JSPS Stockholm Office	23
Message from the Alumni Club Members
	The JSPS Alumni Club in Finland (ACF)	Timo Kuuluvainen, Associate Professor/University Lecturer, University of Helsinki	24
Reports from Japanese Researchers in the Nordic/Baltic Countries
	Report from a Japanese researcher in Finland	Fumi Suomi, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki	26
Academic Information
	Sweden: New law opens door to national research misconduct agency		28
	Finland: Finnish Science Award to Professor Heli Jantunen		28
	Denmark: Universities and students to benefit under new government		28
	Norway: Multidisciplinary `bachelor honours´ degree sparks interest		29
	Estonia: Estonian government okays plan for youth tourist visas with right to employment with Japan		29
	Japan: Japan budget requests for FY2020		29
	Japan: The 35th International Prize for Biology to Dr. Naomi Ellen Pierce		30
	Japan: 2019 Autumn Conferment of Japanese Decoration		30
	Japan: Japanese research into growth of human organs in animals gets preliminary approval		30
Notices
	Call for Applications		31
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		32
	Brochure update｜E-mail Magazine/Newsletter subscription information		33

Summer #37

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Large, comprehensive or small, focused meetings- Pros and cons	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director of JSPS Stockholm Office	2
	RADDESS Annual Seminar in Helsinki		3
	The 4th STS Forum European Workshop in Stockholm		3
News
	Meeting for Headquarters for International Affairs/ JSPS Overseas Office Directors Meeting		4
	The 1st KVA-JSPS Seminar FY2019 with Prof. Takashi Yoshimura		4
	The 2nd KVA-JSPS Seminar FY2019 with Prof. Masataka Fukugita		5
	Meeting on RCN-JSPS Joint Seminar		5
	Meeting between ACN board members and JSPS		5
	The 1st ACF Board Meeting FY2019		6
	Yearly Conference for CAETS 2019		6
	New ACN board member		6
Reports
	AKA-JSPS Annual Seminar FY2019	Masahiro Yamaguchi, Professor, School of Engineering, Tokyo Instute of Technology	7
	The 1st KVA-JSPS Seminar FY2019	Takashi Yoshimura, Professor, Instute of Transformave Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University	8
	The 2nd KVA-JSPS Seminar FY2019	Masataka Fukugita, Professor, Kavli Instute for the Physics and Mathemacs of the Universe, the University of Tokyo	9
Reports — Meetings
	2019.5.14 Visit to Hokkaido University Europe Office in Helsinki		10
	2019.5.14 Visit to the Embassy of Japan in Finland		10
	2019.6.18 Visit to the Embassy of Japan in Norway		10
	2019.6.20 Visit by Ms. Mihoko Toyoshima from the JSPS Headquarters		10
	2019.6.28 Visit by Dr. Kayo Takahashi from RIKEN		10
Column
	Sweden: Ranked first globally three years in a row-Towards the realization of a sustainable society-	Takao Yoshihara, Deputy Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	11
Message from the Alumni Club Members
	The JSPS Alumni Club in Denmark (ACD)	Annee Skovsted Hansen, Associate Professor, Aarhus University	12
Reports from Japanese Researchers in the Nordic/Baltic Countries
	Report from a Japanese Researcher in Denmark	Mika Yasuoka, Representative, Japanordic	13
Academic Information
	Sweden: KI, KTH and SU form the University alliance Stockholm trio		16
	Sweden: Largest investment by a university in gender equality		16
	Finland: AKA reaffirms its sustainable development policy		16
	Finland: New government strategy emphasizes education and culture, revitalization and opportunities for a meaningful life		17
	Denmark: Danish government launches national AI strategy		17
	Norway: What does Brexit mean for Norwegian Horizon 2020 participants?		17
	Japan: Prof. Yoshio Okamoto and Prof. Rattan Lal awarded the 2019 Japan Prize		18
	Japan: White paper on Science and Technology FY2019 emphasizes the importance of basic research		18
Notices
	Call for Applications		19
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		20-21
	JSPS Stockholm Office brochure, E-mail magazine and Newsletter subscribtion		21

Spring #36

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Global synchrony of our world	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
	Welcome new staff members!		3
Special Features
	Establishment of the JSPS Alumni Club in Norway (ACN)		4
	Message from the Chair of ACN	Anders Øverby	4
	Board Members of ACN		5
	ACN Upcoming Events		5
News
	SAC Joint Board Meeting and General Assembly FY2018		6
	The 7th Sweden-Japan Academic Network		7
	The 3rd Norway-Japan Academic Network		7
	Norway-Japan Alumni and Researcher Gathering FY2018		8
	ACF Board Meeting FY2018		8
	All Alumni Meeting in Finland FY2018		9
	The Japan Week Fair		9
	ACD General Assembly FY2018		10
	Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly in Denmark FY2018		10
	Nobel Prize Dialogue Tokyo 2019		11
	KVA Annual Meeting		11
	Japanese Researchers Gathering in Sweden		12
	Summer Program Pre-Orientation		12
	ACD Board Meeting FY2019		12
Reports
	The 7th Sweden-Japan Academic Network	Göran Thor, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	13
	The 3rd Norway-Japan Academic Network	Fujio Ohnishi, Associate Professor, Arcc Center, Hokkaido University	14
	Norway-Japan Alumni and Researcher Gathering FY2018	Naoe Tatara, Former postdoctoral fellow, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Oslo Metropolitan University	15
	All Alumni Meeting in Finland FY2018	Miho Nakamura, Senior researcher, Instute of Biomedicine, University of Turku	16
	Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly in Denmark FY2018	Haruhide Mori, Professor, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University	17
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (SAC)	Johan Eriksson, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Uppsala University	18
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (SAC)	Mikael Lindgren, Professor, Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)	19
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (ACF)	Ilpo Niskanen, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Technology, Structures and Construcon Technology Unit, University of Oulu	20
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (ACD)	David Brander, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathemacs and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)	21
Reports — Meetings
	2019.2.7 Courtesy visit to the Ambassador of Japan in Norway		22
	2019.4.12 Courtesy Visit to the Embassy of Japan in Sweden		22
	2019.4.25 Courtesy Visit to Stockholm University		22
	2019.5.6 Visit by Prof. Kohei Miyazono from Tokyo University		22
	2019.5.9 Courtesy Visit to Karolinska Instutet		22
Column
	Learning from History: the Father of Swedish Mathematics	Tomoko Svedlund Ishii, Liaison Officer, JSPS Stockholm Office	23
Message from the Alumni Club Members
	The JSPS Alumni Club in Sweden (SAC)	Manuel Álvarez-Rodríguez, Principal Research Engineer, Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKE), BKH, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Linköping University (LiU)	24
Reports from Japanese Researchers in the Nordic/Baltic Nations
	Dr. Yoshifumi Futaana	Yoshifumi Futaana, Associate Professor, the Swedish Instute of Space Physics (IRF)	26
Academic Information
	Schedule for the Announcement of the Nobel Prize 2019		28
	Sweden: Prof. Tomoko M. Nakanishi received 2019’s honorary doctorates from Chalmers University of Technology		28
	Sweden: International student recruitment booming in Stockholm		29
	Denmark: Academic researchers need a more reliable career path		29
	Finland: Academy of Finland signs the Declaration on Research Assessment		29
	Baltic nations: Baltic Assembly Committee is meeting in Tallinn to discuss research and education		30
	Japan: Foreign graduates of university to get more job options		30
	Japan: Japan aims to produce 250,000 AI experts a year		30
Notices
	Call for Applications		31
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia, JSPS Stockholm Office E-mail magazine and Newsletter subscription		32

Winter #35

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	“Ichigo Ichie”, the Japanese concept of “One meeting, One opportunity”	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director of JSPS Stockholm Office	2
Special Features
	KVA-JSPS Seminar with Prof. Kajita		3
	Nobel Week 2018		5
News
	AKA-JSPS Seminar in Helsinki with Dr. Kitamoto		10
	Kyushu-Chalmers International Chemistry Symposium		10
	KTH’s Global Day in Stockholm		10
	KVVS Meeting in Gothenburg		11
	Sweden-Japan Joint Seminar in Stockholm		11
	The 2nd Activity Seminar for FY2018 organized by JSPS Alumni Club in Sweden with Prof. Nakanishi		12
	Sweden-Japan Aerospace Conference in Tokyo		12
	Global Science Campus Program by Keio University at KI		12
	JANET Forum 2018 in Lyon		13
	KI-Japan Seminar at KI		13
	Japan's Foreign Minister's Commendations for FY2018		14
	Meeting for Exchanging Opinions between President Satomi and Young Japanese Researchers in Sweden		14
	Japanese Government Draft Budget for FY2019		14
	New Year Reception held at the Ambassador’s Residence in Sweden		15
	Welcoming New Staff at JSPS Stockholm Office		15
Reports
	AKA-JSPS Seminar in Helsinki	Asanobu Kitamoto, Director, Center for Open Data in the Humanities (CODH), Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems	16
	The 2nd Activity Seminar for FY2018 organized by the JSPS Alumni Club in Sweden	Eva Forssell-Aronsson, Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, University of Gothenburg	17
Reports — Meetings
	2018.11.6 Meeting with Mr. Okabe at the Hokkaido University Europe Office in Helsinki		19
	2018.11.6 Meeting with Ms. Ellmén at the Academy of Finland in Helsinki		19
	2018.11.7 Meeting with Ms. Saito at the Embassy of Japan in Finland		19
	2018.11.13 Visit by Dr. Sonia Coelho Sutton, Lund University; and Prof. Leif Kirsebom, Uppsala University		20
	2018.11.27 Visit by Dr. Yasuhiro Iye, Executive Director, JSPS		20
	2018.12.10 Meeting for Exchanging Opinions between President Satomi and Young Japanese Researchers in Sweden		20
Column
	Learning from History: Vasa Syndrome	Viktor Granström, Office Assistant, JSPS Stockholm Office	21
Message from the Alumni Club Chair
	To be Established JSPS Alumni Club in Norway (ACN)		22
Reports from Japanese Researchers in the Nordic/Baltic Countries
	Report from a Japanese Researcher in Norway	Dr. Go Yoshizawa, Research Fellow, AFI	24
Academic Information
	Sweden: Investigator Backs Tuition Fees for Foreign Students		26
	Sweden: New Country Report for Japan		26
	Finland: Vision for 2030 Commits to Investment in HE and R&D		26
	Finland: 100 Years of Finnish-Japanese Friendship		26
	Denmark: Government Takes Steps to Lure and Retain Foreign Talent		26
	Norway: Mixed Response to Minister’s Call for More Study Abroad		26
	Lithuania: The 1st Japan-Baltic Cooperation Dialogue		26
	Iceland: Northern Lights Research Centre Opened in North Iceland		26
	Japan: Enhancing University Partnerships in soft Power Drive		26
	Japan: In Search of New Partners, Japan's Top Research Institute Opens Base in Brussels		26
Notices
	JSPS Program Information		27
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		28
	Subscribe to JSPS Stockholm Newsletter		28

Autumn #34

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Diversity of the Country Size and Borderless Science	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director of JSPS Stockholm Office	2
Feature
	IVA-JSPS Seminar with Prof. Hiroshi Amano		3
	Sweden-Japan Conference -Sparking Interest in Science through Space- with Dr. Chiaki Mukai		5
News
	The 1st SAC Activity Seminar for FY2018 with Prof. Wakayama		7
	Pre-Summit ahead of the Sweden Japan University and Research Leadership Summit - a Working Meeting for Funding Organizations		7
	The 7th Japan-Sweden Joint Committee on Science and Technology Cooperation		7
	The 3rd JSPS Pan Nordic Alumni Club Chair Meeting via Skype		8
	Student Exchange Program Between the University of Tokyo and Three Universities in Stockholm		8
	Artificial Intelligence Meets Life Sciences - the 5th RIKEN-KI/SciLifeLab Symposium		9
	The 5th Japan-Lithuania Joint Life Sciences Symposium in Lithuania - a Working Meeting for Funding Organizations		9
	Life Sciences Baltics 2018		10
	SAC Board Meeting		10
	ACF Board Meeting, General Assembly and Activity Seminar with Prof. Kiyohiko Igarashi		11
	Sweden-Japan University and Research Leadership Summit		11
	The 15th Science and Technology in Society forum		12
	MIRAI Seminar 2018		12
	Japan-Sweden Science and Technology Joint Statement		13
	ACD Activity Seminar with Lecturer Demachi		13
	Arrival of the New Ambassador, the Embassy of Japan in Sweden		13
	2018 Nobel Prize Announcements		14
Reports
	The 1st JSPS Alumni Club in Sweden Activity Seminar of FY2018	Teruhiko Wakayama, Professor, Reproducve Biotechnology, University of Yamanash	15
	The 5th RIKEN-KI/SciLifeLab Symposium at Karolinska Institutet “Artificial Intelligence Meets Life Sciences”	Yasuyoshi Watanabe, Program Director/Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research	16
	The 5th Japan-Lithuania Joint Life Sciences Symposium in Lithuania	Makoto Asashima, Academic Adviser of JSPS, Academic Adviser/Specially Research Professor of Teikyo University	17
	The Activity Seminar organized by JSPS Alumni Club in Finland in Helsinki	Kiyohiko Igarashi, Professor, the University of Tokyo, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland	18
	The JSPS Alumni Club in Denmark Activity Seminar at Aarhus University	Kazue Demachi, Lecturer, African Studies Center, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies	19
Reports — Meetings
	2018.8.31 Visit by Mr. Kazuya Hashimoto, JSPS Head Office		20
	2018.9.6 Visit by Mr. Takahiko Sato, Yokohama City University (YCU)		20
	2018.9.12 Visit by Vice President Yasuhisa Kanaguchi and Director Kaz Matsushita, Kanda University of Internaonal Studies		20
	2018.9.14 Visit by Prof. Hiroki Ueda, the University of Tokyo		20
	2018.9.19 Visit by Prof. Masayuki Amagai, Keio University		21
	2018.9.21 Visit by Mr. Noriyoshi Masuko, JSPS Head Office		21
	2018.09.26 Meeng with Ambassador at the Embassy of Japan in Lithuania		21
	2018.9.26 Meeng with RCL Chairman at RCL		21
Reports — Summer Program 2018
	Six participants of the Summer Program 2018 tell about their experiences		22
Column
	The Role of Universities and the Tree of Knowledge	Viktor Granström, Office Assistant, JSPS Stockholm Office	26
Message from the Alumni Club Chair
	The JSPS Alumni Club in Finland	Dr. Ville Syrjälä
Reports from Japanese Researchers in the Nordic/Baltic Countries
	Report from a Japanese Researcher in Denmark	Dr. Kyoko Murakami, Associate Professor in Psychology, KU	30
Academic Information
	Sweden: New Rules Regarding Admission to Universities to be Introduced		32
	Sweden: International Students are Key to Plugging STEM Gap		32
	Japan: Japan Sees Surge in International Nursing Care Students amid Labor Shortage		33
	Norway: Largest Evaluation of the Social Sciences Published in Norway		33
	Japan: Japan’s Science Ministry Seeks Large Budget Increase		34
	Denmark: Brexit Poses Risks for Danish Higher Education and Research		35
	Finland: Strategic Research Council Submits 2019 Proposal with Strategic Research Themes to Government		35
	Iceland: Iceland and Japan Seeks to Enchance the Cooperation in the Fields of Education and Science		36
	Lithuania: New Opportunities for Strengthening Research of the 3 Baltic States		36
Notices
	Program Information		37
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		38
	GDPR info Subscribe to JSPS Stockholm Newsletter		39

Summer #33

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Innovation, Society 5.0 and Industry 4.0, but still basic research	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	Meeting for Headquarters for International Affairs / JSPS Overseas Offices Directors Meeting		3
	MIRAI Sustainability Workshop		3
	Finland-Japan workshop: “The Next Generation Medical Engineering in Biomaterials”		4
	JSPS European Offices Deputy Directors Meeting		4
News — Alumni
	ACD Board Meeting		5
	ACF Board Meeting		5
	Preparatory Board Meeting of the to be established JSPS Alumni Club in Norway		5
Reports — Meetings
	2018.05.15 Visit to VINNOVA		6
	2018.05.24 Visit to SSF		6
	2018.06.14 Visit to KVA		6
	2018.07.09 Visit by Prof. Yamada from NIFS		6
Column
	Omiyage Culture and Tourism Identity	Viktor Granström, Assistant, JSPS Stockholm Office	7
Message from the Alumni Club Chair
	The JSPS Alumni Club in Denmark	Prof. Carl Winsløw	8
Reports from Japanese Researchers in the Nordic/Baltic Nations
	Report from a Japanese Researcher in Finland	Dr. Aki Tsuruta, Senior Research Scientist, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)	10
Academic Information
	Minister Tells Universities to Stop Academic Inbreeding		12
	The 6th Japan-Norway Joint Committee Meeting on Cooperation in Science & Technology		12
	Expert Group Proposes Higher Student Loans, Lower Grants		13
	The Benefits and Risks of Higher Education Internationalization		13
	Universities Must Step Up to Cater For “Society 5.0”		14
	Japan Launcher H-IIA Rocket Carrying Intelligence-Gathering Satellite		15
	Schedule for the Announcement of the Nobel Prize 2018		15
Notices
	Open call Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		16
	JSPS Stockholm Office Website Renewal GDPR info Subscribe to JSPS Stockholm Newsletter		18

Spring #32

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	The Academic and Fiscal Year System of Japan	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
	Welcome new staff members!		3
News — Activities
	The 6th Sweden-Japan Academic Network		4
	Meeting Point Japan 2018		5
	Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly in Denmark		5
	Hokkaido University – Umeå University Exchange Seminar		6
	Nobel Prize Dialogue Tokyo 2018		6
	Welcome the New President of JSPS: Dr. Susumu Satomi		7
	Gathering for Japanese Researchers Held in Stockholm		7
	JSPS Summer Program Pre-Orientation Held in Stockholm		7
News — Alumni
	SAC Joint Board Meeting and General Assembly		8
	ACD Board Meeting and General Assembly		8
Reports — Activities
	“International Collaboration on Changing Antarctic Ice Sheet” Presented at the Norway-Japan Academic Network of FY2017	Kenichi Matsuoka, Senior Researcher, Norwegian Polar Institute	9
	Norway-Japan Arctic Research and Education Cooperation: Research and Teaching under Globalization and the Rise of Asia	Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, Professor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway Oda Andersen Nyborg, Master in Political Science, UiT The Arctic University of Norway	10
Reports — Alumni
	The 2nd JSPS Alumni Club in Sweden Activity Seminar of FY2017	Atsushi Nishikawa, Professor, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University	11
	Alumni Club General Assembly and the 6th Sweden-Japan Academic Network	Imre Pázsit, Professor, Chalmers University of Technology	12
	Epilogue to the 6th Sweden-Japan Academic Network	Atsuto Maki, Docent, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden	13
	Japanese Lesson Study in Denmark and Sweden, and Collaboration of Education with Other Industries	Masami Isoda, Prof/PhD, Director of the Center for Research on International Cooperation in Educational Development, University of Tsukuba	14
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (ACD)	Tania Ørum, Professor Emerita, University of Copenhagen	15
Reports — Meetings
	2018.04.03 Lunch Meeting with IVA and SJF		16
	2018.04.09 Courtesy Visit to the Embassy of Japan in Sweden		16
	2018.04.10 Visitors from the MIRAI project		16
	2018.04.11 Visit to STINT		16
	2018.04.16 Visit to Stockholm University		16
	2018.04.18 Visit to IVA and SJF		17
	2018.04.23 Visit to Karolinska Institutet (KI)		17
	2018.05.04 Visit by Prof. Masato Yasui, Keio University		17
	2018.05.07 Visit to KTH Royal Institute of Technology		17
Column
	A Historical Look at the 150-Year Anniversary	Viktor Granström, Assistant, JSPS Stockholm Office	18
Message from the Alumni Club Chair
	The JSPS Alumni Club in Sweden	Prof. Göran Thor, Chair of the Alumni Club in Sweden	19
Reports from Japanese Researchers in the Nordic/Baltic Nations
	Report from a Japanese Researcher in Sweden	Dr. Kaneyasu Nishimura, Research Coordinator; Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet	21
Academic Information
	Lund University Orders Photolithography System for Nanowire Growth		23
	New Strategy Aims to Lift Denmark to the Top of European Life Science		23
	Japanese Government to Launch $940 Million Fund for Space Start-Ups		24
	Dr. Akira Yoshino Awarded the 2018 Japan Prize		24
	Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings 2018		25
Notices
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		25
	GDPR info Subscribe to JSPS Stockholm Newsletter		26

Winter #31

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	In Seminars the Number of Attendants Does not Necessarily Matter, but the Quality Does	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	IVA-JSPS Seminar with Dr. Hiroaki Kitano		3
	Fellowship Information Meeting Held in Stockholm		3
	JANET Forum 2017		4
	The Nobel Week 2017		4
	New Year Reception held at the Ambassador’s Residence in Sweden		5
	The Announcement of the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences 2018		6
	Norway-Japan Academic Network		6
News — Alumni
	ACD Activity Seminar with Prof. Yoshitaka Mōri		7
	ACF General Assembly and the All Alumni Meeting		7
	ACD Online Board Meeting Held		7
Reports — Alumni
	100 Years of Linguistic Research in Finland and Japan – Past and Present –	Ryo Umeda, PhD student, University of Oulu/University of Tokyo	8
	Report of the Annual General Meeting and Special Seminar of the JSPS Alumni Club in Finland	Kristiina Jokinen, Adjunct Professor, the University of Helsinki and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC)	9
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (ACF)	Matti Vuorinen, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku	10
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (SAC)		11
Reports — Meetings
	2017.10.03 Visitors from Kyushu University		12
	2017.11.08 Visitors from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Stockholm Office		12
	2017.12.11 Visit by Dr. Yuichiro Anzai, President of JSPS		12
	2017.12.11 Visit by Prof. Yuichi Ikuhara, the University of Tokyo		12
	2018.01.23 Visit by Prof. Tomoko Nakanishi, the University of Tokyo		12
Column
	Importance of Connecting Theory with Practice – Music Education and Club Activities	Viktor Granström, JSPS Stockholm Office Assistant	13
Academic Information
	Prof. Dan Larhammar Elected as the New President of KVA		14
	Free Higher Education Offered to Low-Income Families in Japan		14
	Nobel Laureate Prof. Hiroshi Amano and His Team to Purse Gallium Nitride Technology and Wireless Power Transmition		15
	Japanese Universities to Join Radiation Monitoring Project		15
	Finnish Universities Aim to Increase International Students by 2020		16
Notice
	Welcoming and saying good bye to staff members		16
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia \| JSPS Stockholm Office Facebook Page		17

Autumn #30

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Global Standards Prevail, But Local Standards Remain	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	KI Summer School		3
	KVA-JSPS Seminar with Prof. Kuraku		3
	KVA-JSPS Seminar with Prof. Urade		4
	KVA-JSPS Seminar with Dr. Carninci		4

	Stockholm-Tokyo Workshop “Living longer and healthier in an ageing world”		5
	Signing Ceremony		5
	Nobel Prize Announcements		5
	MIRAI Seminar		6
News — Alumni
	SAC Activity Seminar with Prof. Osumi		7
	JSPS Pan Nordic Alumni Club Chair Meeting via Skype		7
	SAC Board Meeting		8
	SAC Activity Seminar with Prof. Nishikawa		8
Reports — Activities
	Visiting Sweden for KVA-JSPS Seminar	Shigehiro Kuraku, Unit Leader, Phyloinformatics Unit,　RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies	10
Reports — Alumni	KVA-JSPS Seminar 2017 Report	Yoshihiro Urade, Professor, WPI-International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba	10
Reports — Courtesy Visits	Globalization of Japanese Science Goes through Sweden	Piero Carninci, Division Director, Division of Genomic Technologies (DGT), RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies	11
	Strategic partnership workshop: “Active ageing: Living longer and healthier in an ageing world” held jointly by the University of Tokyo and Stockholm University Group	Yuto Kitamura, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo Akiko Kakuta, Assisant Manager, International Affairs Department, The University of Tokyo	12
	SAC Seminar on Andrology:　Reproduction and health during a man’s lifetime	Noriko Osumi, Professor, Department of Developmental Neuroscience,　Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine	13
Reports – Summer Program
	Reports from Summer Program participants FY2017		14
Reports – Meetings
	2017.08.02 Visit by First Secretary Akira Suzuki from the Embassy of Japan in Sweden		17
	2017.08.10 Visit by staff from Hokkaido University Europe Office Prof. Shinichiro Tabata, Director, Mr. Takehiro Okabe, D		18
	2017.08.25 Visit by Prof. Noriko Osumi, Tohoku University		18
	2017.08.30 Visit by former International Program Associate Eriko Kitajima		18
	2017.09.05 Visit by Dr. Sachiko Baba, Osaka University		18
	2017.09.06 Visit by Prof. Yoshihiro Urade, University of Tsukuba		19
	2017.09.22 Visit by staff from the University of Tokyo		19
	2017.09.26 Visit by staff from Shizuoka University		19
Column
	The International Language	Oskar Nielsen, JSPS Stockholm Office Assistant	20
Academic Information
	Jonas Gardell Awarded the KTH Great Prize 2017		20
	Karolinska Institutet the Best Swedish University		21
	Decreased Interest in Language Studies		21
	Popular TV Show Sparks Interest in Research		22
	Nobel Laureate Prof. Ohsumi Starts Foundation		22
	Japanese Government Focuses on Regional Universities		22
Notice
	Open Calls \| Welcome back, Marika!		23
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia \| JSPS Stockholm Office Facebook Page		24

Summer #29

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Importance of the Multiple Research Funding Systems	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	JSPS Overseas Office Directors’ Meeting		3
	Crafoord Prize Award Ceremony		3
	JSPS Japan-Norway Symposium 2017		4
News — Alumni
	ACD Board Meeting		4
	ACF Board Meeting		4
Reports — Activities
	Seminar on Mission Incomplete: Reflating Japan’s Economy	Sayuri Shirai, Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Graduate School of Media Governance, Keio University	5
	JSPS Japan-Norway Symposium ‘Past, Present and Future of the Arctic and Antarctic’	Takuji Nakamura, Vice-Director General, National Institute of Polar Research	6
Reports — Meetings
	2017.06.07 Meeting with representatives from Bergen University		7
	2017.06.07 Meeting with the Research Council of Norway (RCN)		7
	2017.06.15 Visit by representatives from the MIRAI Seminar		7
	2017.07.04 Visit by Director Hiroki Takaya		7
Reports — Courtesy Visits
	2017.05.23 Courtesy Visit to the Nobel Museum		8
	2017.05.26 Courtesy Visit to the Swedish Ministry of Education and Research		8
	2017.05.31 Courtesy Visit to the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)		8
	2017.06.02 Courtesy Visit to Stockholm University		8
	2017.06.12 Courtesy Visit to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA)		9
	2017.06.14 Courtesy Visit to Nobel Media		9
	2017.06.27 Courtesy Visit to the Swedish Research Council (VR)		9
Column
	So many countries, so many summers	Oskar Nielsen, JSPS Stockholm Office Assistant	10
Academic Information
	New Vice-Chancellor at Karolinska Institutet		11
	Swedish Universities in Top 100		11
	Three Top International Universities in Sweden		11
	New Findings about Alzheimer’s Disease Thanks to Synchrotron Light		12
	Bob Dylan Delivered Nobel Lecture		12
	Debate over Tuition Fees in Finland		13
	Denmark’s Youngest Medical Graduate		13
	RCN Urges Universities to Make Articles Openly Available		14
	Government Initiative for Internationalization of Japanese Universities		14
	Limits in Tokyo to Promote Regional Vitalization		14
Notice
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		15
	JSPS Stockholm Office Facebook Page \| JSPS Stockholm Office Brochure		16

Spring #28

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Durability of Buildings - Difference between Japan and Sweden	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	The 5th Sweden-Japan Academic Network		4
	Nobel Prize Dialogue Tokyo 2017		5
	Japan-Denmark Workshop on Biomass Research		5
	Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly 2017		6
	Gathering for Japanese Researchers Held in Sweden		6
	JSPS Summer Program Pre-Orientation Held in Stockholm		7
	Mission Incomplete: Reflating Japan’s Economy		7
News — Alumni
	SAC Joint Board Meeting and General Assembly		8
	JSPS SAC Seminar Event		8
	ACF Board Meeting		9
	ACD General Assembly		9
	ACD Board Meeting		9
Reports — Activities
	My Journey to Japan	Anders Øverby, PhD, Høgskolesenteret i Kongsvinger	10
	2017 Japan-Denmark Workshop on Biomass Research	Yukihiko Matsumura, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University	11
Reports — Alumni
	Alumni Club Meeting and Sweden-Japan Networking Event in February	Lars Öhrström, Professor, Chalmers University of Technology	12
	Report from Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly 2017 in Denmark	Gunhild Borggreen, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen	13
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (SAC)	Petr Dejmek, Professor Emeritus, Department of Food Technology and Nutrition, Lund University	14
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (SAC)	Miquel Pericàs, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology	15
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (ACF)	Elina Oksanen, Professor, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences,University of Eastern Finland	16
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (ACD)	Carl Winsløw, Professor, Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen	18
Reports — Meetings
	2017.02.16 Visit by JSPS Bonn Office Director Prof. Keiichi Kodaira		19
	2017.03.23 Visit to the Embassy of Japan in Sweden		19
	2017.04.11 Visit by former Swedish Ambassador Stefan Noreén		19
	2017.05.03 Visit by Prof. Kohei Miyazono		19
Reports —– Courtesy Visits
	2017.03.24 KTH Royal Institute of Technology		20
	2017.04.21 Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA)		20
	2017.04.27 Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and SwedenJapan Foundation (SJF)		20
	2017.05.08 Meeting with Ms. Lotta Lundqvist, Karolinska Institutet (KI)		20
Column
	Ancient Literature Used to Predict Space Weather	Oskar Nielsen, JSPS Stockholm Office Assistant	21
Academic Information
	Prime Minister Abe Presented Free Higher Education Plan		22
	Foreign Talent Prioritized in Japan		22
	Prof. Imre Pázsit Received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon		23
Message from the Alumni Club Chair	Some Ways the Introduction of Fees for Non-EU Students Have Changed Swedish Academia		23
Reports from Japanese Researchers in the Nordic/Baltic Nations	Doubled Number of PhD Students in Denmark - No Change in Quality		24
	Finland Cuts Funding for Universities		24
	Expert Group Recommends Change in Research Funding in Norway		25
Notices	New Form of Governance of Norwegian Universities		25
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		26

Winter #27

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	A pleasure to knowthe unknown -Few descriptions of Swedish history in Japanese textbooks	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	The Nobel Week 2016		4
	KVA-JSPS Seminar Series: ”Topological Superconductors”, withProf. MasatoshiSato, Kyoto University		6
	Stockholm University Student Fair		6
	Seminar organized by the Japanese Association in Stockholm		7
	IVA-JSPS Seminar”Social and Humanlike Robots”, with Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro		7
	New Year Reception heldat the Ambassador’s Residence in Sweden		8
	JSPS Meeting and Norway-Japan Academic Network		8
Reports — Activities
	Report of the XVth KI Cancer Retreat at Djurhamn	Kohei Miyazono, Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo	10
	Report on 2nd KVA-JSPS Seminar in 2016	Shigeru Ida, Professor, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology	11
Reports — Alumni
	Music Interaction for Health –Novel Methods for Using Music Interaction to Address Wellbeing and Health Improvement in Training and Leisure	Rumi Hiraga, Professor, Tsukuba University of Technology	12
	Paper Yarn in Textiles and Fashion – a compostable raw material for the future?	Dr. Joel Peterson, Senior lecturer, The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås	13
	Towards a dialogue system that can perform casual conversation	Dr. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Senior Research Scientist, NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, NTTCorp	14
	All Alumni Meeting in Finland	Dr. Ayaka Taheuchi, Junior Associate Professor, Laboratory of Environmental Business, Toho University	14
Reports — Meetings
	2016.11.08 Visit by staff fromOsaka University		16
	2016.11.18 Visit by SAC Board Member Dr.Joel Peterson and others		16
	2016.11.28 Lunch Meeting at the Research Council of Sweden		16
	2016.12.05 Visit by staff from Tokyo Institute of Technology		17
	2016.12.11 Visit by staff fromJ SPS Headquarter Office in Tokyo and from JSPS London Office		17
	2017.01.24 Visit by representatives from the MIRAI Project		17
Column
	Gold –the kanji of 2016	Oskar Nielsen, JSPS Stockholm Office Assistan	18
Academic Information
	Automatic voice translators under development		19
	The Swedish government plans to strengthen research quality		19
	Vegetarian blood is being created at SLU Alnarp		20
Reports — Courtesy Visits	Danish students oppose bill to limit funding of second degrees		20
	The Research Council of Norway launches a research program targeted towards municipalities		21
	Finland –to be one of the leading countries in open science and research		21
	Osaka University to open a genome-editing research center		22
	The Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis 2017		22
	Record of foreign students finding jobs after graduating in Japan		23
Notice
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		23

Autumn #26

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Climate influence, liking for stereotyped view, but various people	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	The 2016 Nobel Prize Laureates		3
	Seminaron Student and PhD candidate mobility between Norway and Japan, at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway		4
	Joint SPring-8 –MAX IV Laboratory Workshop on New Light Sources and Biological Applications, Lund, Sweden		4
	3rd Tokyo Tech –Uppsala University Joint Symposium, Uppsala, Sweden		5
	Japan-Lithuania Joint Life Science Symposium, Vilnius, Lithuania		6
	The 15th KI Cancer Retreat, Djurönäset, Sweden		7
	The 3rd RIKEN CLST –KI SciLifeLabJoint Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden		7
	KVA-JSPS SeminarwithProf. ShigeruIda, Lund, Stockholm, Uppsala, Sweden		8
News — Alumni
	ACF Board Meeting		9
	ACD Board Meeting		9
	SAC ActivitySeminar: ”Music Interactionfor Health –NovelMethodsfor Using Music Interaction to Address Wellbeing and Health Improvement in Trainingand Leisure		9
	SAC Board Meeting		10
	SAC Activity Seminar: ”Paper Yarn in Textile and Fashion –a compostable raw material for the future”		10
	ACF Board Meeting, General Assemblyand All Alumni Meeting		11
Reports — Activities
	Joint SPring-8 –MAX IV Laboratory Workshop on New Light Sources and Biological Applications	Atsushi Nakagawa, Professor, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University	12
	Report on the 3rdUppsala University –Tokyo Tech Joint Symposium	Makoto Ando, Executive Vice President for Research, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology	14
Reports — Meetings
	2016.08.17 Courtesy visit to Karolinska Institutet		16
	2016.08.24 Visit to lecturer Yoko Takau Drobin, KTH		16
	2016.08.31 Visist by members from the MIRAI Project		16
	2016.09.16 Visist by Ms. Rina Komatsu, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology		16
	2016.09.23 Visit by Ms. Lotta Lundqvist, Karolinska Institutet		17
	2016.09.28 Visit by researchers and students from the University of Tokyo		17
	2016.09.28 Visit by representatives from the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies(CLST)		17
	2016.10.14 Visit to the Research Council of Norway and Participation at MEXT Alumni Gathering		17
	2016.10.25 Visit by Prof. Tomoko Nakanishi, The University of Tokyo		18
Column
	Ten years of Japanese awardees	Oskar Nielsen, JSPS Stockholm Office Assistant	18
Academic Information
	Nordic Researchers on Greenland		20
	Communicating Robots		21
	ESS Data Management and Software Centre to Open in Copenhagen		21
	Japanese Astronomers Find Oxygen in Early Galaxy		22
	Researcher at UmeåUniversity Served a World First (?) CRISPR Meal		22
	Japan’s Sun Observatory HinodeCelebrates 10 Years in Space		23
	The Swedish Research Council’s Research Barometer		23
Notice
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		24

Summer #25

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Face Neuron and Video (or Web) Conference	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	KVA-JSPS Seminar with Prof. Osamu Nureki, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo		3
	JANET Forum, Berlin		3
	ACF Activity Seminar with Prof. Takao Hanawa, Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University		4
News — Alumni	JSPS Pan Nordic Alumni Club Chair Meeting		4
	SAC Board Meeting		4
Reports — Alumni
	ACF Activity Seminar “2nd Bone and Biomaterials Workshop”	Takao Hanawa Ph.D., Professor, Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University	5
Reports — Courtesy Visits
	2016.06.13 The Embassy of Japan in Sweden		6
	2016.06.14 Swedish Ministry of Education and Research		6
	2016.06.15 Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)		6
	2016.06.15 Lunch Meeting at Stockholm University		7
	2016.06.16 Nobel Museum		7
Reports — Activities	2016.06.16 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA)		7
	2016.06.17 Nobel Media		7
	2016.06.21 The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT)		8
	2016.06.21 Swedish Governmental Agency of Innovation Systems (VINNOVA)		8
	2016.06.27 The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA)		8
Reports — Meetings
	2016.05.13 JSPS Center Director Meeting		9
	2016.06.03 Visit by Dr. Joel Peterson, University of Borås and SAC Board Member		9
	2016.06.09 Visit by Prof. Osamu Nureki, University of Tokyo		9
	Visit to the Embassy of Japan in Sweden		9
	2016.06.23 Visit by Mr Yasuhiro Isobe, Hiroshima University, Research Administrator at the Organization for Research Promotion		9
	2016.07.04 Visit to the Tohoku University Liaison Office at KTH Royal Institute of Technology		9
Column
	Japan – a Food Science Pioneer	Oskar Nielsen, JSPS Stockholm Office Assistant	10
Academic Information
	The Inauguration of MAX IV		12
	Nihonium – a new atomic element		13
	The Silvia Doctors of 2016		13
	KI President Nomination Process		14
	KTH’s New President Proposed		14
	Inventor and IT Entrepreneur Stina Ehrensvärd Awarded the KTH Great Prize		15
	Polar Research Conference for Strengthening Cooperation between Japan and Norway in Tokyo		16
Notice
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		17

Spring #24

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	A New Life in Stockholm - In Expectation of a Slow Passage of Time	Tadaharu Tsumoto, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
	A Farewell	Hideo Akutsu, Former Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
	Staff Changes at JSPS Stockholm Office		3
News — Activities
	IVA-JSPS Seminar Held With Mr. Hiroshi Nakaso, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan		4
	Gathering for Japanese Researchers Held in Sweden		4
	JSPS Summer Program Pre-Orientation Held in Stockholm		5
News — Alumni
	SAC Board Meeting Held at JSPS Stockholm Office		6
	Board Meeting Held at Tampere University of Technology		6
Reports — Alumni
	Three Decades of Japanese-Danish Research Collaborations on Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes	Prof. Birte Svensson, Enzyme and Protein Chemistry, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark	7
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (SAC)	Dr. Johan Anderson, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden	8
Reports — Meetings
	Visit to KTH Royal Institute of Technology		9
	Visit by Prof. Yoshihiro Narita, Director of Hokkaido University Helsinki Office		9
	Visit by Mr. Yasushi Hara, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies		9
	Visit to the Embassy of Japan		9
	Visit by Dr. Daichi Suzuki, Karolinska Institutet		9
	Visit by Dr. Bun-ichi Shimizu, Karolinska Institutet		9
	Visit by Dr. Tadaharu Tsumoto, new Director of JSPS Stockholm Office		9
	Meeting with Dr. Svante Lindqvist, Marshal of the Realm		10
	Visit by Prof. Kohei Miyazono, the University of Tokyo		10
	Visit by Ms. Sari Kodama, Japan Airlines		10
Column
	Japanese Anime “Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter” Winner of the 4th International Emmy Kids Awards		10
Academic Information
	The 2016 Gregori Aminoff Prize Awarded to Prof. Chikashi Toyoshima and Prof. Poul Nissen		11
	Prof. Barbara Cannon Receives the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star		12
	Malaria Elimination on Islands in Lake Victoria, Kenya	Prof. Akira Kaneko, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet	12
Reports — Courtesy Visits	New International Partnership Project: The Norwegian-Japanese Aluminium alloy Research and Education Collaboration		13
	iPS Cell Research Entering the Second Stage		13
Notice
	Upcoming Seminars & Symposia		14

Winter #23

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Weather and Life	Hideo Akutsu, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	Symposium “Issues of Recognition in Pragmatism and American Transcendentalism” Held in Helsinki		3
	New Year Reception Held at the Ambassador’s Residence in Sweden		3
	KVA-JSPS Seminar with Prof. Takashi Kadowaki		4
News — Alumni
	JSPS Alumni Club in Sweden’s (SAC) Joint Board Meeting and General Assembly		5
	The 4th Sweden-Japan Academic Network		5
	JSPS Alumni Club in Sweden’s (SAC) 10-Year Anniversary Symposium		6
	SAC Activity Seminar FY2015: “Epigenetics in Disease and Well-Being”		7
	Japan Alumni Forum 2016		7
	JSPS Alumni Club in Denmark Held the 2nd Board Meeting and the 1st General Assembly		8
	Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly 2016		9
Reports — Activities
	International Workshop on Flow Dynamics and Spintronics	Toshiyuki Hayase, Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University	10
	Report of the International Conference Held at University of Helsinki	Junichi Mori, Vice-President for International Relations, Director General, the Organization for the Promotion of International Relations, Kyoto University	11
	Report on “The 4th Sweden-Japan Academic Network” and “JSPS Alumni Club in Sweden 10-Year Anniversary Symposium”	Imre Pázsit, Division of Subatomic and Plasma Physics, Chalmers University of Technology	12
	JSPS-Linköping University Seminar	Takeo Kubota, Department of Epigenetic Medicine, Yamanashi University	14
Reports — Alumni
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (SAC)	Niclas Bernhoff, Department of Mathematics, Karlstad University	15
Reports — Meetings
	JSPS President Yuichiro Anzai’s Courtesy Call to H.E. Ambassador Jun Yamazaki		17
	JSPS President Yuichiro Anzai visits JSPS Stockholm Office		17
	Visit to HokkaidoUniversity Helsinki Office		17
	Visit by Ms. Mariko Takeuchi, Embassy of Japan in Norway		17
	Visit by Mr. Shoma Fujii, Waseda University student		17
	Visitors from Osaka University and Uppsala University		17
	Visit to STINT		18
	Visit to the Nobel Museum		18
	Visitors from Lund University and Uppsala University		18
Reports — Courtesy Visits	Visit to KTH Royal Institute of Technology		18
	Visit by Prof. Takashi Kadowaki of the University of Tokyo		18
	Visitors from JSPS Headquarter Office in Tokyo		19
	Visit to the Research Council of Norway		19
	Attendance to the Dinner by H.E. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and the Royal Technology Mission 2016		19
	Visit to Lithuania		19
	Visit to Prof. Maria G Masuccis, Karolinska Institutet		19
	Visit by Prof. Bjorn E. Christensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)		19
	Visit by Assoc. Prof. Helga Tabuchi, Yokohama National University		19
Column
	Robot Farm in Japan to Produce Lettuce		20
Academic Information
	H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf visited Japan with the Royal Technology Mission		21
	Prof. Tomoko M. Nakanishi, the University of Tokyo, Elected as Foreign Member of IVA		22
	University of Bergen and Norwegian University of Science and Technology Unite to Strengthen Collaboration with Japan		22
Notice
	Upcoming Seminars & Symposia		23

Autumn #22

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Globalization and Migration	Hideo Akutsu, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	The 2015 Nobel Laureates and Nobel Week		3
	KIFEE Symposium Held in Trondheim, Norway		4
	The 2015 Marcus Wallenberg Prize		4
	EIJS Stockholm Seminar on Japan and International Conference with Prof. Izumi Ohno		5
	KVA-JSPS Seminar Held with Prof. Hiroshi Imahori		5
	IVA-JSPS Seminar on “the Future of Forestry” Held with Prof. Hiroyuki Yano and Dr. Masayoshi Watanabe		6
	The 3rd Joint International Workshop Between Tohoku University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology		6
	Farewell Ceremony Held for H.E. Ambassador Seiji Morimoto		6
News — Alumni
	JSPS Alumni Club in Denmark Held the 1st Board Meeting		7
	ACF General Assembly and Seminar “Academic Links Between Finland and Japan” Held in Helsinki		7
Reports — Activities
	Seminar and Conference on “Japanese Development Cooperation in the Post-2015 Era”	Izumi Ohno, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)	8
	KVA-JSPS Seminar	Hiroshi Imahori, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University	9
Reports — Alumni
	SAC Activity Seminar: “Japanese Ethics and Technology”at Ångström Laboratory in Uppsala University	Takashi Majima, Associate Professor, School of Business Administration, Senshu University	10
Reports — Meetings
	Visit by Prof. Imre Pázsit, Chair of SAC 10-year Anniversary Working Group		11
	Meeting at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA)		11
	Visit by Mr. Mattias Jennerholm and Ms. Marija Milivijevic, Division of Research Policy, Sweden’s Ministry of Education and Research		11
	Meeting at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)		11
	Visit by Prof. Manami Inoue, the University of Tokyo		11
	Visit by Prof. Shigehiko Suzuki, Shizuoka University		12
	Visit by Assoc. Prof. Yuji Shibasaki, Iwate University		12
	Visit by Prof. Izumi Ohno, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)		12
	Visit by Dr. Masayoshi Watanabe, Ministry of International Trade and Industry		12
	Visit by Prof. Gunnar Öquist, Umeå University, and Prof. Mats Benner, Lund University Prof. Gunnar Öqui		12
	Farewell Dinner Held for H.E. Ambassador Seiji Morimoto, Embassy of Japan in Sweden		13
	Visit to the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University		13
	Meeting with SAC 10-year Anniversary Working Group members Prof. Imre Pázsit and Prof. Göran Thor		13
	Meeting with SAC Activity Seminar Organizer Prof. Heriberto RodriguezMartinez, Linköping University		13
	Visit by Dr. Hideyaki Murayama, University of Tokyo and Visiting Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology		13
	Courtesy Call to H.E. Ambassador Jun Yamazaki, the Embassy of Japan in Sweden		14
	Meeting at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA)		14
	Meeting with the Embassy of Japan in Denmark and Tokai University Alumni Association in Denmark		14
	Visitors from the Embassy of the Republic of Korea and NRF Stockholm Office		14
	Visit by Dr. Makoto Oura, Hokkaido University		14
Column
	Japanese Astronaut Kimiya Yui Back on Earth After 141 Days in Space		15
Academic Information
	Japan-Sweden University Presidents’ Summit Held in Tokyo at the Embassy of Sweden		16
	Prof. Marie Söderberg Awarded the Foreign Minister’s Commendation for FY2015		16
Notice
	Upcoming Seminars & Symposia		17

Summer #21

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Flourishing SUOMI in Move	Hideo Akutsu, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	KVA-JSPS Seminar Held with Prof. Yuichi Ikuhara		3
	The 1st Network Meeting for Japanese Researchers in Norway Held in Oslo		3
News — Alumni
	SAC Activity Seminar “Japanese Ethics and Technology” Held at Uppsala University		4
Reports — Activities
	Symposium on "Human Brown Adipose Tissue and Obesity"	Masayuki Saito, Professor emeritus, Hokkaido University	5
Reports — Meetings
	Visit by Dr. Hitoshi Takahashi, Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Karolinska Institutet		6
	Visit by Prof. Takuji Nakamura, National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR		6
	Meeting at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) Director Akutsu, Deputy Director Kawakubo, and International P		6
	JSPS Overseas Office Directors’ Meeting Held in Tokyo		6
	Dinner Held in Honor of Prof. Shinya Yamanaka at the Ambassador’s Residence		7
	Visit by Prof. Yoriko Atomi, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology		7
	Visit by Mr. Ryu Yoshida, Nihon University		7
	Visit by Ms. Haruka Nakagawa and Mr. Hiroshi Kumabe, Waseda University		7
	Meeting at the Estonian Academy of Sciences and Estonian Research Counci		8
	Dinner Meeting with Dr. Naoko Saito, Kyoto University		8
	Visit by Dr. Stefan Noreén, Senior Adviser, Office of the President, the University of Tokyo		8
	Visit by Dr. Fumiko Kasuga, National Institute of Health Sciences, and Prof. Kensuke Fukushi, the University of Tokyo		8
	Dinner Held in Honor of Prof. Kohei Miyazono at the Ambassador’s Residence		9
Reports — Alumni
	ACF Activity Seminar on Future Diagnostics	Seiji Shibasaki, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Hyogo University of Health Sciences	9
Column
	Japanese National Holiday: Respect for the Aged Day		11
Academic Information
	Prof. Yoshinori Ohsumi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Prof. Shimon Sakaguchi, Osaka University, Awarded the Canada Gairdner International Award 2015		12
	Prof. Carl-Henrik Heldin Appointed New Chair of SciLifeLab		13
	Prof. Johan Rockström Awarded the 2015 International Cosmos Prize		13
	Japan-Norway Science Week 2015		14
Notice
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		14

Spring #20

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Norwegian Woods	Hideo Akutsu, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	IVA-JSPS Seminar on Fuel-Cell Vehicles with Mr. Koichi Kojima, Toyota		3
	Gathering for Japanese Researchers in Sweden		3
	JSPS Summer Program Pre-Orientation Held in Stockholm		4
	The 2015 Crafoord Prize		4
	Symposium on “Human Brown Adipose Tissue and Obesity” Held in Stockholm		5
News — Alumni
	SAC Activity Seminar FY2014 Held at Linköping University		6
	SAC Board Meeting Held at the JSPS Stockholm Office		6
	The Japan Alumni Forum Held in Helsinki		7
	The Seminar “Research and Study Possibilities in and on Japan” Held in Helsinki		7
	ACF Activity Seminar FY2015 “Future Diagnostics” Held in Turku		8
	ACF Spring Meeting Held with the Seminar “Future Diagnostics”		8
Reports — Activities
	Presentation and People whom I met at IVA Seminar	Koichi Kojima, Project General Manager of Fuel Cell System Engineering & Development Division, Toyota Motor Corporation	9
	Research Source on Language Teaching and Politics: Japanese language education in Pre-war Europe	Prof. Yoshimi Ogawa, International Strategy Office, Graduate School of Education, Yokohama National University	9
Reports — Meetings
	Visitors from Hokkaido University		11
	Director Hideo Akutsu and Deputy Director Yuriko Kawakubo visited Oulu, Finland		11
	Dinner with JAXA Astronaut Mr. Soichi Noguchi		11
	Director Hideo Akutsu and Deputy Director Yuriko Kawakubo visited Umeå University		11
	Visitors from the JSPS Head Office in Tokyo		12
	Visitors from Tokyo Institute of Technology		12
	Attending the lunch meeting with officials from the Nobel Foundation, Nobel Media and Nobel Museum		12
	Visitor from Osaka University		12
Reports — Alumni
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (ACF)	Prof. Seppo Salminen, Functional Foods Forum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku	13
	Finnish Alumni Club Summit in Osaka	Dr. Kristiina Jokinen, Chair of the JSPS Alumni Club in Finland (ACF)	15
	The Sweden-Japan Seminar on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (SJS-Nano)	Ashutosh Tiwari, Associate Professor, Group Leader, Smart Materials and Biodevices, Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, IFM-Linköpings University	16
Column
	The Royal Prince Wedding 2015		17
	Japan’s Robot Astronaut ”Kirobo”		18
Academic Information
	The Fifth Meeting of the Japan-Norway Joint Committee on Cooperation in Science and Technology (JCM) Held in Oslo		19
	The 2015 Marcus Wallenberg Prize		19
	Sweden’s Minister for Infrastructure visited Japan and South Korea		20
	Enhancing Sustainability of Products and Services – A Promising Area for Collaboration between Sweden and Japan –	Prof. Tomohiko Sakao, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden	21
Notice
	Upcoming Seminars and Symposia		22
	Staff Changes at JSPS Stockholm Office		23

Winter #19

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	A Dream of Denmark	Hideo Akutsu, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	The 2014 Nobel Week		3
	Attending the “Arctic Nexus in Asian-Nordic+ Relations” Workshop in Aalborg, Denmark		4
	Attending the Stockholm University Study Fair		4
	Network Meeting for Japanese Researchers in Denmark		4
	New Year Reception held at the Ambassador’s Residence in Sweden		5
	KVA-JSPS Seminar held with Prof. Shoji Takeuchi		5
	Attending the Nobel Prize Dialogue Tokyo 2015		6
	Attending the Finnish-Japanese Joint Symposium on Morphogenesis and Signaling		6
News — Alumni
	SAC Joint Board Meeting and General Assembly		7
	ACF Board Meeting, General Assembly and All Alumni Meeting		7
Reports — Activities
	The 3rd Sweden-Japan Academic Network Keynote Lecture	Prof. Masayuki Nakajima, Department of Game Design, Uppsala University	8
Reports — Meetings
	Meeting at IVA		9
	Visitor from KTH Royal Institute of Technology		9
	Visitors from Karolinska Institutet.		9
	Meeting with Prof. Marie Söderberg, Director of the European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS), Mr. Hideki Ishizuka, Minister, and Mr. Masafumi Sato, the Embassy of Japan in Sweden.		9
	Meeting with Göran Marklund, Deputy Director-General, VINNOVA		9
	Visit to the Nobel Museum		9
	Visit to Karolinska Institutet.		9
	Visitors from JSPS Headquarters and MEXT		9
	Meeting at IVA		9
	Meeting with Dr. Hans Pohl, STINT Program Director.		9
	Visit to Lund’s MAX IV Laboratory		10
	Visit by Mr. Tero Salomaa, Deputy Director of Hokkaido University Helsinki Office		10
	Visitors from NRF Stockholm Office and University of Nagasaki		10
	Meeting at IVA		10
	Visit to Academy of Finland		10
	Visit to the Nobel Peace Center		10
	Visit to the Research Council of Norway (RCN)		10
	Visit to the Embassy of Japan in Norway		10
	Visitor from the University of Tokyo		10
	Visitor from the University of Tokyo		10
Reports — Alumni
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (ACF):Once in your lifetime opportunity	Dr. Heikki Mäkipää, President of the Finland Japan Culture and Education Association (FJCE)	11
	JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship Research Report (SAC)	Prof. Imre Pázsit, Chalmers University of Technology	12
	Farewell from the former JSPS Alumni Club in Finland Chairman	Dr. Antero Laitinen, Chairman 2008-2013	14
	Assyrian Policy towards Babylonia in the 7th Century BC	Sanae Ito, Ph.D. Student in Assyriology, University of Helsinki	16
	A New Guidebook on Japan: An Interdisciplinary Spin-off of Mombugakusho and JSPS scholarships	Tapani Jussila	18
Notice — Alumni
	Upcoming seminars		20

Autumn #18

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Swedish Style Innovation	Hideo Akutsu, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News — Activities
	The 2014 Nobel Prize Laureates		3
	Two KVA-JSPS Seminars held with Prof. Yoshinori Tokura and Prof. Emiko Ochiai		4
	New Biology and Technologies in Medical Science		4
	JSPS Stockholm Office attended the Life Science Baltics Forum 2014 in Lithuania		5
	Sweden-Kyoto Symposium		5
	JSPS Stockholm Office attended the Denmark-Japan Workshop on Bioenergy		6
	Uppsala University-Tokyo Institute of Technology Joint Symposium: Breakthroughs in Science & Technology for the 21st Century		6
	The 1st Network Meeting for Japanese Researchers in Finland		6
	Dialogue between Japan-Finland-Russia and a kick-off meeting for a Japan-Finland Bilateral Program held in Helsink		7
	Japan-Denmark Scholarship Information held in Copenhagen		7
	RIKEN-Karolinska Institutet-SciLifeLab Joint Symposium - New Era of Life Science		7
	JSPS Stockholm Office attended the Hokkaido University Catalysis Research Center - Stockholm University Joint Symposium		8
	The 3rd Sweden-Japan Academic Network		8
News — Alumni
	SAC Activity Seminar held at Örebro University		9
	Preparatory meeting for the establishment of an Alumni Club in Denmark		9
Reports — Activities
	Report on the KVA-JSPS Seminar	Yoshinori Tokura, RIKEN / University of Tokyo	10
	Young Scientist Seminars in Sweden	Keiji Miyazawa, University of Yamanashi and Takeshi Imamura, Ehime University	11
	Report on the Sweden–Kyoto Symposium 2014	Tetsuo Sawaragi, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University	12
	The Cats in Uppsala	Takashi Tatsumi, Executive Vice President for Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology	14
	The 1st Network Meeting for Japanese Researchers in Finland	Sanae Ito, University of Helsinki	15
Reports — Meetings
	Visitors from JSPS Head Office		16
	Visitors from Stockholm University		16
	Visitor from the University of Tokyo		16
	Lunch meeting with KTH Royal Institute of Technology		16
	Visitor from Tohoku University		16
	Meeting with the Nobel Foundation		16
	Visitor from Hokkaido University		16
	Visit by Japanese professors and young researchers		16
	Visitor from Aalborg University		16
	Visitors from Osaka University and Karolinska Institutet		16
	Visitors from Tokyo Institute of Technology		17
	Meetings in Finland		17
	Courtesy visit to the Ambassador of Japan in Finland		17
	Visit to the SciLifeLab in Uppsala		17
	Courtesy visit to the the Minister of the Embassy of Japan in Sweden		17
	Visitors from Josai University		17
	Visitors from RIKEN		17
	Prof. Tomoko Nakanishi of the University of Tokyo visits Sweden		17
Reports — Alumni
	A Japan Boom happened already in the 1930s	Interview with Prof. Yoshimi Ogawa by Tapani Jussila	18
Notice
	Activities		20
	Alumni		20

Summer #17

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	The Wind in Stockholm	Hideo Akutsu, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News
	IVA-JSPS Seminar was held with Prof. Akasaki of Meijo University		4
	The First KI-Osaka Univ. Joint Symposium (Immunology and Infection Biology) was held		4
	JSPS Alumni Club in Finland held a spring meeting		5
News — Courtesy calls on JSPS Partner Institutions in Sweden
	Nobel Museum		6
	VINNOVA - Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems		6
	The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and the Sweden-Japan Foundation		6
	The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT)		6
	Ministry of Education and Research		7
	Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)		7
	The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA)		7
News — Other meetings and visitors to JSPS Stockholm Office
	Visitors from Karolinska Institutet		8
	Meeting in Copenhagen		8
	Lunch meeting with professors from the University of Tokyo		8
	Lunch meeting with Uppsala University’s Vice-Chancellor		8
	Visitor from Hokkaido University		8
	Visitor from the University of Tokyo		8
	Lunch meeting with participants from Karolinska Institutet.		8
	Meeting at IVA		9
	Visit by Tohoku University’s Management Planning Manager and JSPS Stockholm Office’s former staff member		9
	Visitor from the Hokkaido University, Helsinki Office		9
	Lunch meeting with Secretary General of Sweden-Japan Foundation, the Embassy of Japan in Sweden’s First Secretary Mr. Hideto Matsumoto and his successor		9
Reports
	Report on the 1st IVA-JSPS Seminar of FY2014	Satoshi Kamiyama, Professor of Meijo University	10
	The first Karolinska Institutet－Osaka University Joint Symposium (Immunology and Infection biology)	Sachiko Baba, MD, PhD, Vice Director, Center for International Relations, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine	11
	Reflections on visiting the Vision Group at Lund University	Dr. Michiyo Kinoshita, Sokenda	12
	Visit to Institute of Behavioural Sciences in University of Helsinki	Dr. Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)	14
	Board members of the JSPS Alumni Club in Finland (ACF)		16
Academic Information
	Lithuania-Japan (Tsukuba) Joint Science Symposium was held		18
	Upcoming Seminars & Symposia		18
	Introduction of JSPS Stockholm Office’s New Director, Dr. Hideo Akutsu		21

Spring #16

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Winter Scene	Takeo Miyazawa, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
News
	Japan-Denmark Students Information Exchange and JSPS meeting held in Denmark		3
	Joint Symposium on Environmental Science held in Finland		3
	Alumni Club Finland’s (ACF) General Assembly was held		4
	Two KVA-JSPS Seminars held with Prof. Shoichiro Kurata and Dr Michiyo Kinoshita		4
	Two IVA-JSPS Seminars held with Prof. Seiji Iwakura and Prof. Hiroaki Suga		5
	Sweden Alumni Club (SAC) held a board meeting		5
Reports
	Japan-Denmark Students Information Exchange		6
	KVA - JSPS Seminar	Prof. Shoichiro Kurata, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences	7
	The Japan-Europe Science, Technology & Innovation Symposium 2014 in Sweden	Yasuhiro Kato, the University of Tokyo	8
	All Alumni meeting in Finland	Sanae Ito, Ph.D. Student in Assyriology, University of Helsinki	9
Academic Information
	Up-coming Seminars and Symposia		10
Notice
	Staff changes at JSPS Stockholm Office		11

Autumn #15

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Swedish realism and green welfare nation	Yoshiaki Fujii, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	1
News
	One-year Anniversary Event Held for Tohoku University Liaison Office in Sweden		2
	Tohoku University President Satomi visits JSPS Stockholm Office		2
	Joint KVA-JSPS Seminar with Professor Toshio And		2
	SAC General Assembly		3
	The 2nd Sweden-Japan Academic Network was held in Stockholm		3
	JSPS at Stockholm University’s International Study Fair		3
	Meeting with STINT		4
	Director Miyazawa greets new ambassador Seiji Morimoto		4
	Meeting with VINNOVA		4
Reports
	KVA - JSPS Seminar	Professor Toshio Ando, Kanazawa University	5
	The 2nd Sweden-Japan Academic Network		6
	JSPS Fellowship Research Report	Karl Andersson, Luleå University of Technology	8
Academic Information
	JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellowships for Foreign Researchers is open for applications		9
	New JSPS Summer Program launched for Swedish Master’s/Postdoc students		9
	SAC Activity Seminar FY2014 is open for applications		9
	Up-coming Seminars/Symposium		10
Notice
	Staff change at JSPS Stockholm		11

Summer #14

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Concerning female researchers and low birth rate	Yoshiaki Fujii, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	1
News	SAC Activity Seminar held at SMHI		2
	Sweden-Japan Collaboration Symposium held		2
	Joint Meeting Held between Young Academies of Sweden and Japan		3
	Visitors from the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Frontier Sciences		3
Reports
	SAC Activity seminar: Meteorological data for the large-scale hydrological modleing	Jonas Olsson (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute)	4
	Joint Meeting between the Young Academies of Sweden and Japan Stockholm 12-13th June 2013	Yuji Nishiyama (Tokyo Metropolitan University)	5
	The members of the Young Academy of Japan		6
	“Future Energy Systems – The Role of Hydrogen” , Tokai University and The Technical University of Denmark’s Energy transition seminar series	Jacob Skyt Jensen (Tokai University European Center)	10
Academic Information
	Joint Japan-Sweden Research Collaboration		12
	STINT Teaching Sabbatical Program		12
	Up-coming seminars/symposiums		12
Notice
	Introducing new staff at JSPS Stockholm		13
	Subscribe to JSPS Newsletter		13

Spring #13

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Considering the environmental problems and nuclear powers	Yoshiaki Fujii, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	1
News
	SAC Activity Seminar FY 2012, ICT-ethics Sweden-Japan		2
	1st All Finland-Japan Alumni meeting		2
	SAC Board Meeting		3
	Japan-Sweden Science, Technology Y & Innovation Symposium Lithium Ion Battery ~The Inception, Development and Future~		3
Reports
	SAC Activity Seminar: Symposium ICT-ethics Sweden-Japan	Elin Palm	4
	The first Finland All Alumni Seminar	Tero Salomaa	5
	Activities of the Sweden Alumni Club during FY 2012		6
	Japan-Sweden Science & Technology Innovation Symposium 2013	Charles A. Marken, Corporate Communications, Asahi Kasei Corp.	7
	BRIDGE Fellows FY 2012 in FAC &SAC		8
Academic Information
	SAC Contact Persons		9
Notice
	Up-coming seminar/symposium		14
	Subscribe to JSPS Newsletter		14

Autumn/Winter #12

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	The Nobel Prize and the Globalization of Universities	Yoshiaki Fujii	2
News
	2012 Nobel Prize		3
	Finland Alumni Club Holds General Meeting and Seminar		3
	The 1st Japan-Sweden Fellowship Research Network		3
	JSPS Sweden Alumni Club’s General Assembly		4
	The 7th Sweden-Japan BioNano Workshop		4
	Colloquium on Cell Research Held in Stockholm		4
	Lectures Held in Northern Europe via S&T Diplomacy		5
	JSPS Stockholm Office Participated in Danish Research Funding Meeting		5
	Meeting with VINNOVA/STINT		5
	Board Member’s Visits to JSPS Stockholm Office		6
	Visit to Hokkaido University Helsinki Office		6
Reports
	Dr. Shinya Yamanaka Wins Nobel Prize and JSPS President Participates in Nobel Week Even		6
Academic Information	FAC Activity Seminar: A Year in Japan with the Vulcanus Program	Tommi Tynell, PhD Student, Aalto University School of Science and Technology	7
	The 1st Sweden-Japan Academic Network		8
	Sweden-Japan BioNano Workshop – an innovative forum for future health care solutions	Gunilla B Jacobson, Dr., Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center, Karolinska Institutet	10
	Joint JSPS – Karolinska Institute Symposium: Current Concepts in Regulation of Metabolism, Cell Differentiation and Function	Tomohiro Sawa, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University	11
	Report of a lecture trip in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark (21 st – 27th Oct. 2012)	Masaaki Morikawa, Prof. Hokkaido University	12
Announcements
	JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (short-term & standard)		13
	BRIDGE Fellowship Program		14
	JSPS Upcoming Events		14

Spring/Summer #11

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	What to be learned from Sweden	Yoshiaki Fujii,	2
News
	Honorary doctor		3
	Meeting and Lecture Held by Japan- Sweden Joint Committee		4
	Japan-Norway Symposium Held on Space Sciences		4
Reports
	Sweden Alumni Club Board Meeting	Lisa-Mi Swartz	5
	Memorial Ceremony First Anniversary of Great East Japan Earthquake	Yoshiaki Fujii	5
	Japan – Sweden Joint Science and Technology Cooperation Meeting	Makoto Asashima	6
	Report of Japan-Norway Symposium on Space Sciences in Polar Regions	Ryoichi Fujii	7
	Hokkaido University Helsinki Office	Shinichiro Tabata	8
	Courtesy Call on Nobel Museum	National Museum of Nature and Science	9
	BRIDGE Fellowship Wood Chemistry in Japan	Ulla Westermark	10
Announcements
	Fellowship Information		11
	Upcoming JSPS Events		12
	New-JSPS Stockholm Staff		13

Winter #10

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	From Stockholm, a Nordic city	Yoshiaki Fujii, Director, JSPS Stockholm Office	2
Reports
	BRIDGE Fellowship at Doshisha University, Kyoto	Kristiina Jokinen	3
	JSPS Colloquium Nuclear Energy & Nuclear Applications	Kazutoshi Ono	4
	JSPS-KVA Seminar Japanese Youth in Transition	Kazutoshi Ono	5
News & Announcements
	Fellowship Information		6
	New JSPS Stockholm Office Staff		7

Summer/Autumn #9

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Day-by-Day	Hiroshi Sano	2
Reports
	JSPS-RSAS Conference Capturing the Sun	Yuko Kamoshita	3
	JSPS Colloquium Abiotic Stress from Genes to Biosphere	Lisa-Mi Swartz	3
	JSPS Finland Alumni Club Joint Event with the Japanese Embassy	Kazutoshi Ono	4
	Impressions from JSPS-RSAS Conference	Conference by S	4
Science & Culture
	Studying in Japan: the Undergraduate Experience	Anni Kynsilehto	6
	East Meets West on a Plate (7) Rice, the Pearl of Grains	Elisabeth Sano	8
	Festival (9) Origami	Lisa-Mi Swartz	11
	Promenade (9) Birdwatching	Hiroshi Sano	13
News & Announcements
	Fellowship Information		14
	Upcoming JSPS Colloquium		15

Spring #8

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Science Literacy	Hiroshi Sano	2
Special Issue: Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake
	Radiological Consequences of the Fukushima Accident Due to the Large Earthquake, and Following Tsunami, in Tohoku, Japan 14:46 local time, March 11, 2011	Lembit Sihver & Frank Van den Heuvel	3
	Note from a Forensic Odontologist	Hisako Saitoh	8
	My Experience of the Earthquake	Kazutoshi Ono	8
Reports
	JSPS Sweden Alumni Club General Assembly & Seminar	Lisa-Mi Swartz	9
	JSPS Finland Alumni Club Joint Event with the Japanese Embassy	Taijiro Tsuruoka	9
	JSPS Colloquium Direct Imaging in Bio/Medical Science	Taijiro Tsuruoka	12
	JSPS-KVA Seminar Yeast Biotechnology: Cold-induced Expression System & High-throughput Reporter Assay with Novel Secretory Luciferase	Satoru Ohgiya	12
	The Nobel Prize Ceremony 2010	Yuko Kamoshita	12
Science & Culture
	Medical Imagery in an Imaging Society	Max Liljefors	13
	Plant Strategies for Surviving the Swedish Winters	Matsuo Uemura	14
	Festival (8) Hinamatsuri – Doll Festival	Lisa-Mi Swartz	17
	Promenade (8) Butterfly and Tsunami	Hiroshi Sano	18
News & Announcements
	Academy Funding to Finnish-Japanese Research on Living & Housing	Riitta Tirronen	19
	New JSPS Stockholm Office Staff		19
	Fellowship Information		20
	Upcoming JSPS Colloquium		21

Autumn/Winter #7

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Misconception	Hiroshi Sano	2
	Nature watch (3) Autumn Darter (Aka-tombo)		3
Reports
	JSPS Colloquium Nanofabrication & Functional Device	Takashi Fuyuki & Jun Ohta	4
	JSPS Colloquium Microbes at Work	Taijiro Tsuruoka	4
	JSPS Colloquium Epigenetics – Best Poster Award	Ryuichi Ono	5
	BRIDGE Fellow Report Cultural Deviations	Petr Dejmek	6
	Sea Ice Research Visits to Hokkaido	Matti Leppäranta	7
Science & Culture
	East Meets West on a Plate (6) Green Tea in Japan	Elisabeth Sano	9
	Festival (7) Bosai no Hi - Disaster Prevention Day	Lisa-Mi Swartz	11
	Promenade (7) Edible Wild Plants	Hiroshi Sano	13
News & Announcements
	Fellowship Information		14
	Forthcoming JSPS Colloquium		15

Spring/Summer #6

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Reports
	Bright Laboratory Impressions from a JSPS Colloquium	Kazuhiro Maeshima	2
	JSPS Sweden Alumni Club General Assembly & Seminar	Lisa-Mi Swartz	3
	Observing NTA – Science Education in Sweden	Tetsuya Murayama	4
	Kojiro Nishina Honorary Doctorate at Chalmers University of Technology	Lisa-Mi Swartz	4
	JSPS European Alumni Club Meeting	Jan Sedzik	5
	Social Security of JSPS Fellows and Alumni	Jan Sedzik	6
	Visit to the Research Council of Norway	Yuko Kamoshita	7
Science & Culture
	East Meets West on a Plate (5) Temple Cuisine	Elisabeth Sano	8
	Research Report from Stay as a JSPS BRIDGE Fellow at HIMAC, NIRS, in Chiba	Lembit Sihver	10
	Promenade (6) Satoyama Walking	Hiroshi Sano	13
	Festival (6) Tanabata	Lisa-Mi Swartz	14
	Introduction of JSPS Stockholm Office Staff		15
News & Announcements
	Research Grant & Fellowship Information		16
	Forthcoming JSPS Colloquium – Epigenetics		17

Winter #5

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Study of Western Science	Hiroshi Sano	2
Reports
	JSPS Colloquium Advances in Cellular Reprogramming & Stem Cell Biology	Rumiko Mouri	3
	JSPS Sweden Alumni Club Seminar Held in Linköping	Lisa-Mi Swartz	3
	Sweden Alumni Club and German Alumni Club’s Meeting with JSPS Tokyo	Jan Sedzik	4
	Report from Physics & Mathematics Class’ of 2011, NTNU Trip to Japan	Lisa-Mi Swartz and Mikael Lindgren	5
	New S&T Budget and Policy	Lisa-Mi Swartz	7
Science & Culture
	Lesson from “Paddy Field” – Continuation	Jan Sedzik	8
	Lecture at a Seminar of the Sweden JSPS Alumni Association Japanese Mathematics from Traditional to Modern	Chikara Sasaki	9
	Lecture at a Seminar of the Finland JSPS Alumni Association Design of Porous Glass from By-Products in Materials Processing	Toshihiro Tanaka	10
	Lost in Transmission	Akira Nakajima	16
	Festival (5) Sapporo Yuki Matsuri – Snow Festival	Lisa-Mi Swartz	17
	East Meets West on a Plate (4) Miso Soup	Elisabeth Sano	18
	Nature Watch (2) Sakura	Hiroshi Sano	19
	Promenade (5) Hiking Looking for Stone Deities	Hiroshi Sano	20
News & Announcements
	Fellowship Information		21
	BRIDGE – JSPS Re-Invitation Program		22
	JSPS Alumni Club General Assembly & Seminar		22

Summer/Autumn #4

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Paddy Field	Hiroshi Sano	2
Reports
	JSPS Colloquium Frontiers in Nanobiotechnology from Engineering to Application for Cells	Helene Andersson-Svahn, Toshiro Ohashi	3
	JSPS Finland Alumni Club Inauguration Ceremony	Rumiko Mouri	4
	FAC Summer Seminar	Eija Säilynoja	5
	Nice Memory of Turku 15 Years Collaborative Research with Finnish Scientists on Probiotic Research	He Fang	5
	First Visit to Finland	Haruki Kitazawa	7
	My Affectionate Relation to Japanese Science and Culture A JSPS Alumni Club Board Member’s Background and Experiences	Stig Allenmark	7
Science & Culture
	What Are “High-Temperature” Superconductors?	Hisao Yamauchi, Maarit Karppinen	10
	Festival (4) The Enjoy Japanese Hot Springs -Onsen-	Lisa-Mi Swartz	13
	East Meets West on a Plate (3) Eggplants with Miso	Elisabeth Sano	15
	Nature Watch Spider Lily and Swallowtail	Hiroshi Sano	16
	Promenade (4) Hiking at the Foot of the Tanigawa Mountains	Renkichi Takata	17
News & Announcements
	Fellowship Information		18
	Other Grants		19
	Re-Invitation Program starting autumn 2009		19
	Colloquium – September 5, 2009		20

Spring #3

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Preface
	Silk Road	Hiroshi Sano	1
Reports
	JSPS Colloquium – “Sun and Earth”	Masatoshi Yamauchi	3
	European Board Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden 2009	Jan Sedzik	4
	Finland Alumni Club	Matts Roos	4
	Each Wave Turning Over -Challenges to the Coastal Engineer in Japan and Elsewhere	Magnus Larson	5
Science & Culture
	What Ever Became of Darwin’s “Warm Little Pond”?	Richard Egel	7
	Climate Change Between Japan and China: Problems and Prospects	Linus Hagström	8
	Festival (3) Hanami	Lisa-Mi Swartz	9
	Promenade (3) Akame Cascade Hiking	Hiroshi Sano	11
	East Meets West on a Plate (2) Fried Tofu	Elisabeth Sano	12
News & Announcements
	JSPS Colloquium on Frontiers in Nanobiotechnology from Engineering to Application for Cells		13
	New JSPS Stockholm Office Staff		13
	JSPS Fellowships Information	Rumiko Mouri	14

Winter #2

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Prologue
	Tradition	Hiroshi Sano	2
Reports
	JSPS Colloquium – Environment I “Sustainability of the Natural Environment”	Rumiko Mouri	3
	CRC International Symposium in Stockholm	Masamichi Ogasawara	4
	The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony & the Nobel Week	Rumiko Mouri	5
	Greeting from the JSPS Finland Alumni Club	Antero Laitanen	6
	Sweden Alumni Club – Interview with Chair Jan Sedzik		7
	JSPS Sweden Alumni Club Seminar Held in Gothenburg	Stig Allenmark	9
Science & Culture
	What We See in Carl P. Thunberg		10
	Education & Sustainability for Overcoming “Lower Dominating Upper”	Yoshihisa Shimizu	11
	Sea Ice Climate in the Okhotsk & Baltic Seas - A Long-Term Research Program	Kunio Shirasawa	12
	The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008	Richard A. Reyment	13
	Consumer Relationships on Organic Food Markets in Sweden	Ingrid Stigzelius	14
	Back to Stockholm after One Year	Hidenori Harada	15
	Introduction to a New Permanent Exhibition of Japanese Objects at The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquites, Stockholm	Petra Holmberg	16
	Promenade (2) Nara Yagyu-road Hiking	Hiroshi Sano	18
	Festival (2) Oshogatsu	Lisa-Mi Swartz	19
	East Meets West on a Plate (1) Tofu Tuna Patties		20
News & Announcements
	New Grant for Sweden-Japan Bilateral Joint Projects		21
	Fellowship Information		22
	Colloquium March 10-11, 2009		23
	Sweden Alumni Club Board Members		24

Autumn #1

Item	Contents	Author	Page
Preface
	Horned Islands	Hiroshi Sano	2
Reports
	European Board Meeting and the French Alumni General Meeting in Paris 2008	Ma-Li Svensson	3
	JSPS Alumni Sweden General Assembly 2008	Lisa-Mi Swartz	4
	Introduction of New Chairman of JSPS Alumni Sweden	Jan Sedzik	5
	JSPS Alumni Finland General Assembly 2008	Markku Hauta-Kasari	6
	Interview with Laurence Romani		7
Science & Culture
	Space – the Final Frontier	Anders Karlsson	8
	Biotechnology – A story of caffeine	Hiroshi Sano	9
	The Samurai – Some Brief Notes	Catharina Blomberg	10
	Sado – Tea Ceremony	Yuki Tanaka	12
	Obon	Lisa-Mi Swartz	14
	Promenade (1) - Kyoto Higashi-yama Hiking	Hiroshi Sano	15
News & Announcements
	World Premiere Institutions		16
	Fellowship Information		17
	Colloquium - September 5, 2008		18
	Introduction of JSPS Stockholm Office Staff		19