Media Coverage
Media
On Wednesday, July 22, an article titled “The Marine Ecosystem Seen in a 3.5-Centimeter-Diameter
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On Wednesday, July 22, the article “Coral Spreads on the Kuroshio Current / Nansei Islands” was
published on page 17 of the morning edition of the Kahoku Shimpo.
Media
On Monday, July 20, an article titled “Researchers find tiny marine ecosystem — population 307 — in
a bottle
cap” was published in The Japan Times.
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On Sunday, July 19, Jiji Press published an article titled “Tiny ‘Ecosystem’ in a Bottle Cap:
Drifted from the Philippines to Off the Coast of Kochi—Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and
Technology, et al.”
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On Wednesday, July 15, Anthropocene Magazine published an article titled “This tiny bottle cap
traveled 1,500 kilometers. It had 307
hitchhikers aboard.”
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On Monday, July 13, The Times of India published an article titled “A plastic bottle cap found near
southern Japan carried 307 sea
creatures, including one worm never recorded in Japanese waters before.”
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On Sunday, July 12, the article “Topics: Coral Spreading in the Kuroshio Current” was published on page 16 of the morning edition of the Tooku Nippo.
Media
On Friday, July 10, an article titled “New Discovery in Marine Plastic Debris—Diverse Organisms
Inhabiting a Cap Just 3.5 cm in Diameter: Nagoya University/National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology, et al.” was published in Tsukuba Science News.
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On Thursday, July 9, BBC Wildlife
Magazine published “Hundreds of miles. One plastic cap. 307 individual hitchhikers.”
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On Saturday, July 4, “Science Topics: Coral Spreading with the Kuroshio Current” was published on
page 5 of the morning edition of the Chubu Keizai Shimbun.
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Journal
Senior Principal Researcher Shu Genhoku's article "Quantitative Analysis of Elements by ICP-MS and
Practical Evaluation of Synthesis Uncertainty" was published in the June 2026 issue of the Journal
of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry, 'Bunseki'.
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On Thursday, June 25, the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, morning edition, page 25, featured "Opening the
Future with Technology / AIST's Challenge (418) Conservation of Marine Life in the Southwestern
Islands."
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On Wednesday, June 10, the Chemical Daily, morning edition, page 5, featured "Visualizing Deep-Sea
Ecosystems: Used for Setting Conservation Areas."
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On Friday, June 5, the Okinawa Times, morning edition, page 20, featured "Corals Riding the Kuroshio
Current / Southwestern Islands: Larvae Moving North from the Sakishima Islands."
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On Thursday, May 14, an article titled “Endangered Status of the Endemic Miyakosawa Crab Confirmed
by Genetic Analysis—Habitats Fragmented and Isolated Due to Wetland Disruption” was published in
Tsukuba Science News.
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Newspaper
On Thursday, May 14, an article titled “Pioneering the Future Through Technology: AIST’s Challenge
(412) – Investigating the Effects of Surface Collapse” was published in the digital edition of the
Nikkei.
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Newspaper
On Sunday, April 19, the Nikkei Shimbun (digital edition) published an article titled “Ocean
Currents Influence Coral Distribution: AIST Clarifies Through Genetic Testing—Aiding Conservation
Efforts.”
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Newspapers
On Tuesday, July 1, the article "Nature Positive Nasuno-no-Hara Alliance: Established by Nasushiobara City, AIST, and NIEH" was published on page 2 of the Science Newspaper.
Newspaper
On Thursday, June 26, the Shimotsuke Shimbun published an article titled “Framework to Promote ‘Nature Restoration’: Nasushiobara City Accelerates Regional Collaboration / Activity Support and Information Sharing” on page 3 of its morning edition.
Media
On Tuesday, May 27, on NHK’s “News 7,” and on Wednesday, May 28, on “Good Morning Japan,” comments
by Deputy Director Tetsuo Yasutaka regarding “Reclamation and Reuse of Removed Soil from the
Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant” were broadcast.
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On Friday, May 23, comments by Deputy Director Tetsuo Yasutaka on “Recycling Removed Soil from the
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant for Reconstruction” were broadcast on NHK Fukushima’s
“Hamanaka Aizu.”
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