| POLYMERS Vol.66 No.1 |
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COVER STORY Enjoy Your Life and Polymers! |
| Diversity is a keyword for growth strategies in Japan, and it becomes necessary to utilize diverse human resources with different genders, different ages and different nations, in the face of globalization and an aging society with fewer children. Our lifestyles in research and work have diversified in times of accelerating change. The first step in “diversity” is respect and acceptance of the individual “difference”. It is also important to find great value in the “difference”. Various researchers from university, institutes and industries, including senior, mid-career, young, female and foreign researchers, contribute to this volume and introduce their lifestyles. There are some projects to promote the “diversity” in academia and industries, which is also introduced in this volume. It would be great if readers get a hint to find out their suitable lifestyles from various stories of their experience and contents of diversity projects. Editors: KOJIMA, SERIZAWA, KINBARA, TAKEOKA, and TSUNODA |
| New Year's Message from the SPSJ President |
| A Happy New Year! –Polymer's Potential– | Yoshiki CHUJO | １ |
| Digest for English Readers | 3
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| Hot Topics in Polymer Science in SPSJ | 6
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| Commentary |
| The Role of Universities in the Acquisition of Diversity | Jian Ping GONG | 7
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| COVER STORY: Topics and Products |
| Footsteps of Promotion of Female Scientists and Engineers in Japan | Kazue KURIHARA | 8 |
| Driving Over More than 4 Rounds of the Earth | Kazushi KINBARA | 9 |
| Role of Senior Researcher in Sumitomo Chemical | Chizu SEKINE | 10 |
| Let's Enjoy Working – Connecting R&D, Production and Customer | Hiromi NAKAFUTAMI | 11 |
| Diversity in a National Institute: A Case in NIMS-MANA | Waka NAKANISHI | 12 |
| Job and Childcare | Hiroharu AJIRO | 13 |
| Research Life in Switzerland | Urara HASEGAWA | 14 |
| “Mom” Researcher for a Company | Miyuki HAYAMA | 15 |
| Work-Life Balance of Young(?) Female Researcher | Miyuki OSHIMURA | 16 |
| Diversity by Mutual Activation | Olaf KARTHAUS | 17 |
| A Few Thoughts on Diversity | Martin VACHA | 18 |
| MEXT Programs to Supporting Activities of Female Scientist in Japan | Yasuko YAMAMURA | 19 |
| Bridgestone's Diversity Initiatives and Support Systems for Diversification of Employment Formats | Juri UEKI | 21 |
| PolyMANGA | 22 |
| Polymer Science and I: A Personal Account |
| First Inspiration of Arrayed-Polymer-Waveguide Gratings | Satoshi WATANABE | 23
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| Messages: “Work and Life” |
| My Future Looks Exciting | Tanemi ASAI | 24
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| Front-Line Polymer Science |
| Structural Color Materials from Polydopamine that Mimic Melanin | Michinari KOHRI, Ayaka KAWAMURA | 25
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| From My Bookshelf | Takashi MIYATA / Hiroyuki FURUSAWA | 29 |
| PolySCHOLA | Takeshi KIKUTANI | 30 |
| Messages from SPSJ | 34 |
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