2025.5.12
Same as last year, we are offering classes for 4th graders at two elementary schools as part of their comprehensive learning program from May 12 to June 30. The two schools are Tawara Elementary School and Ujitawara Elementary School, both located in the town of Ujitawara. PL Oyama and researcher Noda will visit the elementary schools every other week to give classes. The t...
2025.5.1
Sprinkling garbage on deserts to make them greener, solve humanitarian crises such as famine and conflict, and create a peaceful society. Oyama PL’s practical efforts in Niger using garbage were featured in Big Issue Japan.
2025.4.11
The knowledge fostered by Kyoto University researchers will spread beyond time and space, creating further knowledge for the future and leading to solutions for the challenges facing the world. This booklet presents the visions of the future as envisioned by 125 researchers through the messages they have sent, and conveys the power of change that research can bring to societ...
2025.4.9
The project initiative “Don’t burn trash, return it to nature” reported by PL Oyama at the media roundtable meeting held by RIHN on February 20 was featured in the Kankyo Shimbun dated March 5. Kankyo Shimbun Online (Registration is required to view articles)https://www.kankyo-news.co.jp/subscription
2025.4.9
Oyama PL’s presentation at the 11th World OMOSIROI Award ceremony held on February 25, 2025 was streamed on YouTube. Please click the link below. Shuichi Oyama / Presentation World OMOSIROI Award 11th.
2025.4.8
A paper by Yumi Yamanashi (Principal Researcher, Center for Research and Education of Wildlife, Kyoto City Zoo), a collaborative researcher for the Organic Material Circulation Project has been published in the academic journal Public Library of Science (PLoS).
2025.3.20
The Japan News by the YOMIURI SHIMBUN evening edition dated March 19, Eeyan! KANSAI” featured the project’s activities. The article introduces my unique composting project at the Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto (Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City) as a measure against food loss. Executive Chef Yasuhiro Yoshida and Jun Mori of Hidekichi Mori Farm are also featured in the newspaper. A...
2025.3.13
In the special exhibition, “Hello from Satellite RIHN – An Institute where Dialogue is Born,” five researchers from RIHN are conducting their daily research activities at the venue during the period. Kentaro Noda, a researcher from this project, will participate on March 20 (Thursday, national holiday) and March 24 (Monday). Place: Kyoto City University of Arts, Buildi...
2025.3.13
DANCING WITH ALL: The Ecology of Empathy 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa✕ RIHN “Animarave” will distribute soil made from the compost house to the first 50 visitors on Sunday, March 16, the last day of the event. Soil will be distributed in original limited-edition tote bags designed by artist Takeshi Yasura. Date: March 16, 2025, 14:00-18:00 Place: 21st ...
2025.2.27
The Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto issued a press release titled “Promoting a Project to Realize Food Recycling: March Limited Sale of Special Strawberry Sweets Grown with Compost Derived from Food Waste”. Sweets using strawberries from Shimizu Farm in Seika Town, grown with compost made from dry compost, are available only during March. The Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto, in coopera...
