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Panel calls for steps to boost venture businesses in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A panelist addresses a symposium on venture business held in Tokyo on March 8. The National Forum on Entrepreneurship and Venture Business, headed by Shibaura Institute of Technology President Leo Esaki, presented a report calling on the government to reform Japan's systems in areas from taxation to education so as to promote venture businesses.

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(3)Ryoji Noyori awarded Nobel chemistry prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Ryoji Noyori (L), a chemistry professor at Nagoya University who received this year's Nobel chemistry prize, shake hands with Leo Esaki, the 1973 Nobel physics prize winner, at a concert hall in Stockholm on Dec. 10 after the award ceremony there. Noyori's wife Hiroko stands between them.

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Panel calls on gov't to revise 1947 education law

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L) receives a report from Reona (Leo) Esaki, chairman of the National Commission on Educational Reform, at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Dec. 22. The report says the government should break a long-standing taboo and carry out a major revision of the 1947 Fundamental Law of Education to enable it to meet current needs.

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(3)Ryoji Noyori awarded Nobel chemistry prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Ryoji Noyori (L), a chemistry professor at Nagoya University who received this year's Nobel chemistry prize, shake hands with Leo Esaki, the 1973 Nobel physics prize winner, at a concert hall in Stockholm on Dec. 10 after the award ceremony there. Noyori's wife Hiroko stands between them.

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Panel calls for steps to boost venture businesses in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A panelist addresses a symposium on venture business held in Tokyo on March 8. The National Forum on Entrepreneurship and Venture Business, headed by Shibaura Institute of Technology President Leo Esaki, presented a report calling on the government to reform Japan's systems in areas from taxation to education so as to promote venture businesses.

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Obuchi resolved to review postwar education

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (standing) speaks at the first meeting of his advisory panel on education reform at the premier's official residence in Tokyo on March 27. He expressed his resolve to review the country's postwar education model. The 26-member panel, headed by Nobel Physics Prize laureate and former Tsukuba University President Reona (Leo) Esaki (front R), is expected to meet twice a month and compile a final report a year later.

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(12)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba (R), professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Leo Esaki, the 1973 Nobel physics prize laureate, speak at a press conference at the University of Tokyo on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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(10)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba (R), professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, shakes hands with Leo Esaki, the 1973 Nobel physics prize laureate, at a press conference at the University of Tokyo on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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(11)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba (R), professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo who was chosen as one of the three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, shakes hands with Leo Esaki, the 1973 Nobel physics prize laureate, at a press conference at the University of Tokyo on Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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Panel calls on gov't to revise 1947 education law

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L) receives a report from Reona (Leo) Esaki, chairman of the National Commission on Educational Reform, at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Dec. 22. The report says the government should break a long-standing taboo and carry out a major revision of the 1947 Fundamental Law of Education to enable it to meet current needs.

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Panel calls for community service for students

TOKYO, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Nobel Physics Prize laureate Reona (Leo) Esaki (R), head of the National Commission on Educational Reform, hands Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori his panel's interim report Sept. 22. The report said the nation's school curricula should require all elementary, junior high and senior high school students to take part in community service to nurture their sense of self-reliance and civic spirit.

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Esaki talks with Obuchi on education reform

TOKYO, Japan - Reona (Leo) Esaki (L), a Nobel Physics Prize winner and a former president of the state-run Tsukuba University, talks with Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi at the premier's official residence March 23. Obuchi has named Esaki to head his advisory panel on education reform. The panel's other members include Olympic gold medalist Yasuhiro Yamashita and Tama University President Gregory Clark.

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MITI establishes forum to nurture entrepreneurs

TOKYO, Japan - International Trade and Industry Minister Takashi Fukaya (L) and Nobel Physics Prize winner Reona (Leo) Esaki hold a board inscribed with the name and logo of a just-established national forum aiming to nurture Japanese entrepreneurs, at a Tokyo meeting of its senior officials March 17. Local businesspeople and newspapers will be invited as regional organizers and sponsors of the forum's symposiums so their ideas and experiences can be shared.

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Esaki eyes 'custom-made' education

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel Physics Prize winner Reona (Leo) Esaki, who will head a new government education reform panel, says he will aim to create a ''custom-made'' education system to meet the needs of different students. ''There are ready-made clothes and custom-made clothes, but people look better in outfits tailored to fit their needs,'' he told Kyodo News in an interview March 10.