Biophysical research in Okazaki, Japan

Biophysical Reviews: 2020—looking back, going forward

“…In Issue 2, we explored the Biophysical Society of Japan (BSJ) (Komatsuzaki et al 2020 ; Hall 2020c ). The front matter contained within it numerous fascinating Commentaries about the BSJ’s organizational units which included contributions by the executive officers (Harada 2020 ; Akiyama 2020 ; Miyata 2020 ; Nakamura 2020 ), Japanese biophysical journal Editors (Sako 2020 ; Ishiwata 2020a , b ) and five consortiums describing biophysical research at various national centres and universities (Aizawa et al 2020 ; Akiyama et al 2020a , b ; Ando 2020a , b ; Takano et al 2020 ). This section was further complemented by contributions from senior (Kataoka 2020 ) and junior members (Okamoto 2020 ).…”

Editorial for the Special Issue of Biophysical Reviews focused on the Biophysical Society of Japan with select scientific content from the 57th BSJ annual meeting, Miyazaki, Japan

“…To provide the reader with an idea of some of the places to perform biophysical research in Japan, we invited various institutes and centers throughout Japan to provide a summary of their facilities and opportunities available for study, work, or collaboration in the field of biophysical science. We received five such descriptive reports about biophysics at Kanazawa University (Ando 2020), Waseda University (Takano et al 2020), Kyushu University (Akiyama et al 2020a), Okazaki Institutes (Akiyama et al 2020b), and Hokkaido University (Aizawa et al 2020) that might provide scientists located outside of Japan with a starting point of reference when making inquiries.…”