Kyushu University

The SDGs Design International Awards 2022 ceremony, organized by the SDGs Design Unit of the Faculty of Design and the Center for Designed Future of Kyushu University, took place online on Saturday, November 12, 2022.Prior to the awards…

Kyushu University welcomed 15 Queensland University (UQ) students to the engineering department from November 27 to December 9, 2022, as part of the two-week University of Queensland Japan Program for Industrial Experience (UQ-JPIE).The…

An international team of researchers from Japan and Germany has developed a new system that upconverts blue LED light into high-energy Ultraviolet B, or UVB, light.As the system does not require any of the toxic and inefficient materials…

Kyushu University hosted an international conference, MIRAI 2.0 Research and Innovation Week, led by MIRAI 2.0, an academic alliance among 20 universities in Japan and Sweden, at its Ito Campus from November 15 to November 18, 2022. The…

On December 5, 2022, about 35 students from JTW (Japan in Today's World), a short-term study program for international students, attended a kimono workshop at the Ito Guest House on Kyushu University Ito Campus.Ms. Hosui Yamauchi, a…

Nothing beats a good soak in a hot bath, and when it really hits the spot, you can almost feel your worries and ailments diffusing out into steam.Perhaps there is nowhere better to treat what ails you than the hot springs at the…

Professor Shigeru Fujino of Kyushu University, in collaboration with associate professor Shinichiro Ito of Kyoto Sangyo University, Ikeda Picks, and Kohoku Kogyo Co., Ltd., developed the world's first silica glass guitar picks. Silica…

Kyushu University researchers have developed a new 'Hikikomori Questionnaire' in an effort to detect the condition at an earlier stage. Preliminary results show that 'isolation' is a possible factor that can distinguish between…

On November 12th, 13th, and 20th, 2022, the Northeast Asia Debating Championships was held online, and Kosei Enomoto (School of Interdisciplinary Science, 4th year) and Haruka Kawano (School of Law, 4th year) of Kyushu University won the…

Using twelve high-powered lasers, researchers recreated small solar flares in order to study the mechanisms behind a fundamental astronomical phenomenon known as a magnetic reconnection.As recognizable the phrase 'the vast emptiness of…