(Photo from left to right: OSUMI Yo, Consul General; ABE Toshiko, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; Kazuhito Morioka, OTI; TAKAYA Hiroki, Deputy Director-General; KONDO Jun, Secretary to the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology).
In January, the Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology visited the Orthopaedic Trauma Institute (OTI) at UCSF’s Pride Hall.
Toshiko Abe, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, is a native of Miyagi Prefecture. Abe attended Miyagi Gakuin Women's Junior College and Mitsui Memorial Hospital Nursing School, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the University of Illinois at Chicago for her doctorate (Ph.D.) in the United States.
While in the Bay Area, the delegation also visited I Peace, Inc.; Stanford Biodesign; the Japan Innovation Center; the Fine Arts Museum; and UCSF-ZSFG-OTI before heading next to Washington, DC.
Kazuhito Morioka, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, is also a science and technology fellow of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and had the pleasure of meeting with the group and showing them our state-of-the-art facilities at Pride Hall.
Their visit aims to contribute to strengthening Japan's science and technology capabilities by, among other things, exchanging views on the research and entrepreneurial environments in Japan and the US with Japanese researchers working abroad and entrepreneurs in the deep-tech field.
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