{"id":2352,"date":"2013-10-25T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/?post_type=news&#038;p=2352"},"modified":"2022-10-11T21:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T12:44:37","slug":"20131025_68","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/news\/20131025_68\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshio Yanagida, Center Director, awarded Japan\u2019s prestigious \u2018Person of Cultural Merit\u2019."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Toshio Yanagida, Center Director of Center for Information and Neural Network (CiNet), was named a Person of Cultural Merit of 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was awarded by his revolutionary achievements such as revealing muscle contraction mechanism with creative ideas as a pioneering researcher of \u201csingle molecule measurements techniques\u201d in biophysics. He is promoting new research on neural network based on this idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Yanagida\u2019s comment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I brought in an idea of moderateness, typical Japanese culture, into research and challenged to understand life with my professor Fumio Oosawa. I had been arguing for a long time with the researchers around the world with the concept of \u201cyuragi\u201d, which is not common in Europe and the United States. I am very happy to be rewarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cinetjp-static3.nict.go.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}