“…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.…”