More than 95 science communicators gathered at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) on March 19 – 20 to chart a new course for boosting international media coverage of Japanese science.
The International Science Communication Workshop 2015 brought representatives from Japanese universities, scientific institutes and government agencies together with Western media experts. For two days, the group discussed strategies for publicizing Japanese science stories to the world in English.
“This was the best combination of science communicators that Japan has ever seen,” said David Hajime Kornhauser, senior research administrator at Kyoto University. “We now have a vision for future international media relations that will break existing models.”