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2026 10 entries / first coverage from abroad
WEB Facebook / Centro UASD Azua Japanese physicist Kazuo Tanaka shares his experience of teaching physics at the UASD Azua Centre 08.15 ↗ WEB Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo / Instituto de Física Japanese physicist Kazuo Tanaka connects the UASD with experimental physics and international scientific networks 08.14 ↗ WEB Facebook / Facultad de Ingeniería UNCo Science and international cooperation: Dr. Kazuo Tanaka’s visit to UNCo 08.14 ↗ WEB Instagram / @comunidad.fain Science and international cooperation: Dr. Kazuo Tanaka’s visit to UNCo 08.13 ↗ WEB Instagram / @prensa_unco UNCo’s Faculty of Engineering hosts an international day of portable science with Dr. Kazuo Tanaka 08.07 ↗ WEB Universidad Nacional del Comahue / FaIn UNCo’s Faculty of Engineering hosts an international day of portable science with Dr. Kazuo Tanaka 08.07 ↗ PRESS Genshiryoku Sangyo Shimbun ‘Exhilarating science’ carries on to the academic conference 06.12 ↗ PR Waseda University Kazuo Tanaka, Senior Researcher (Science & Engineering), selected for a new FY2025 project under JST's FOREST Program 04.27 ↗ PRESS Genshiryoku Sangyo Shimbun Why is science so ‘exhilarating’? | Toward a borderless world of knowledge 04.21 ↗ PRESS Genshiryoku Sangyo Shimbun Accel Kitchen: junior- and senior-high students report their particle-physics findings 03.31 ↗
2025 15 entries
PRESS Braille Mainichi Telling radiation apart by pitch: Institute of Science Tokyo students develop a teaching tool 07.13 ↗
PRESS Zen-Shigaku Shimbun Four junior- and senior-high students run a muon-beam experiment — a first at J-PARC 06.23 ·
PR PR TIMES University students develop a radiation detector you can tell apart ‘by sound,’ supporting learning for people with visual impairments 06.06 ↗ PR PR TIMES Accel Kitchen's cosmic-ray detectors appear in the film “Kono Natsu no Hoshi wo Miru” (starring Hiyori Sakurada) 05.29 ↗ PR PR TIMES A world first! Junior- and senior-high students run a muon-beam experiment at J-PARC, one of the world's most powerful accelerators 05.23 ↗ TV Nippon TV news every. (an up-close look at the ‘particle girls’ and their challenge) 05.06 ↗ PR PR TIMES Yuzuki Sasaki (11th grade) selected for Japan's national team at the International Nuclear Science Olympiad 04.28 ↗ PR Waseda University FY2025 MEXT Minister's Award in the field of Science and Technology — comments from the recipient 04.18 ↗ PR @Press Winner of the FY2025 MEXT Minister's Award, Science and Technology Prize (Public Understanding Promotion category) 04.17 ↗ RADIO NHK Radio 1 / N-Raji Desk Editor Sugita's ‘Within a 2-Meter Radius’: covering the special class at the University of Tsukuba's Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired 04.11 ↗
TV TBS THE TIME, (morning news show) 01.31 ·
WEB note / refineproject ‘The joy of science for everyone’: KEK and Accel Kitchen take on particle-physics teaching tools, and the story behind them 2025 ↗ WEB note / Tenchijin Inc. Studying the universe is more fun with friends: the power of ‘loving what you do,’ from the high-school girls chosen by a world-leading research institute 2025 ↗ MAG Soccer Mama vol.55 Autumn 2025 issue (‘Training your soccer brain,’ part 5) 2025 ↗ MAG Soccer Mama Training your soccer brain with science × digital, Vol. 4 2025 ↗
2024 16 entries / the year CERN coverage cascaded
PRESS Koukousei Shimbun A five-member team of Japanese high-school girls wins top honors in a particle-experiment competition — what makes research so appealing? 12.10 ↗
PRESS Zen-Shigaku Shimbun Five Japanese high-school girls, top winners in an international competition, run a particle experiment at the world's largest accelerator facility 11.03 ·
PRESS Kagaku Shimbun A team of Japanese high-school girls runs a particle experiment in Switzerland 10.11 ↗ RADIO NHK Radio 1 / N-Raji The five ‘particle girls’ taking on the invisible world 10.04 ↗ PRESS Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Joshi Gakuin High School wins top prize, taking data with the CERN accelerator 10.03 ↗ PRESS Sankei Shimbun A high-school girls' team runs a particle experiment in Switzerland — they built their own detector, made possible by a top finish in the competition 09.27 ↗ PR Waseda University A Japanese first: high-school girls complete a particle-physics experiment at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) 09.27 ↗ PRESS Asahi Shimbun (The Path of Education) For children's futures, society should broadly support education 09.18 ↗ PRESS Asahi Shimbun Off to Switzerland for a particle experiment: high-schoolers take a step toward their dream — a Japanese first in CERN's open call 08.20 ↗ PRESS Asahi Shimbun Five high-school girls headed to Switzerland for a particle experiment — Japan's first selection by the world-class institution 08.02 ↗ TV BS TV Tokyo / Meimonko Junten Junior and Senior High School: the drive to dig deep and the courage to step forward 07.13 ↗ MAG Newton Five high-school girls headed to Switzerland for a particle experiment 2024 ↗ MAG Soccer Mama Winter 2024 issue (print gallery) 2024 ↗ MAG Soccer Mama ‘Training your soccer brain’ with science × digital, Vol. 3 2024 ↗ MAG Soccer Mama Summer 2024 issue (print gallery) 2024 ↗ MAG Soccer Mama ‘Training your soccer brain’ with science × digital, Vol. 2 2024 ↗
2023 2 entries
PRESS Tokushima Shimbun High-schoolers propose solutions to school and social issues to the governor 12.18 ↗ MAG Soccer Mama Winter 2023 issue (series Vol. 1) 2023 ↗
2022 2 entries
PRESS Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Get started at ‘T-Biz’: the Tohoku University-affiliated business incubator 02.08 ↗ WEB MIGAKU / interview series Kazuo Tanaka, PSI fellow at the Paul Scherrer Institute 2022 ↗
2021 3 entries / three Tokushima papers, all at once
PRESS Tokushima Shimbun Students from 14 high schools present their disaster-prevention research 12.27 ↗ PRESS Mainichi Shimbun / Tokushima High-schoolers make proposals to the prefecture 12.27 ↗
PRESS Yomiuri Shimbun / Tokushima High-schoolers propose solutions to the prefecture's challenges 12.21 ·
2020 2 entries
TV NHK Sendai Teremasamune 07.07 ·
RADIO NHK Radio 1 Miyagi Goji Daccha! 05.01 ·
2019 9 entries / the early days — programming × sport
PRESS Nikkan Sports Nikkan 4356 News 08.06 ·
RADIO NHK Radio 1 Miyagi Goji Daccha! 06.03 ·
PRESS Asahi Shimbun Programming: in search of a textbook 04.17 ·
PRESS Nikkan Sports Column: sport × programming education 03.29 ↗ WEB Coeteco Build an AI that's great at Othello! Workshop report 2019 ↗ WEB Coeteco Use math to craft soccer tactics! Kawasaki Frontale ‘STEAM education × SOCCER’ event report 2019 ↗
MAG ince・be Featured in the autumn issue 2019 ·
MAG Soccer Mama Summer issue (‘Soccer Mama's Curiosities’) 2019 ·
WEB Aobayama no Menmen The People of Aobayama / Prof. Tanaka 2019 ·
2018 1 entry / our first media feature
TV NHK Tokushima Toku6 Tokushima 11.01 ·
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