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2025.8.6

WPI-AIMEC leaders visit Toyota Konpon Research Institute

On Thu, July 3, 2025, WPI-AIMEC Director Prof. Toshio Suga (Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University), Vice Director Prof. Fumio Inagaki (Principal Researcher, JAMSTEC) and two other members visited Toyota Konpon Research Institute in Nagoya.

This visit followed the discussions held at Tohoku University in January 2025, and featured active exchanges of perspectives on how to share and apply scientific knowledge gained through future research of AIMEC on marine environments and ecosystem change.

Toyota Konpon Research Institute is “An institute founded to explore the basics—KONPON—for the sake of humanity and the Earth” (quoted from their official website).

Toyota Konpon Research Institute
https://konpon.toyota

The first meeting: Exchange with Toyota Konpon Research Institute
https://wpi-aimec.jp/en/activities/1332/

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