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Welcome to Miraikan

Many people of note from all over the world, scientists, researchers, public officials, and celebrities, visit Miraikan, and a few of them are introduced here.

Recent Guest

Date : Thursday, January 19, 2012

Guest : Hon. Deepak Obhrai, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada

2012

01.19: Hon. Deepak Obhrai, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada

2011

12.14: Prof. LIM Tit Meng(Science Centre Singapore, Chief Executive)
12.07: Gen. Jugderdemidiin Gurragchaa (Former Astronaut, Adviser of Mongolian Academy of Sciences)
11.07: Ms. Rikke Lind, Vice Minister of Ministry of Trade and Industry of Kingdom of Norway
10.26: H.E. Dr. Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani (Advisor to the President of Sudan)
10.13: Hon. Ms. Hanny-Sherry Ayittey (Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Ghana)
10.06: Dr. Mohammad Mehdinejanouri (Vice-Minister, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology)
10.05: H.E. Mrs. Meira Kumar (Speaker, Lok Sabha)
10.05: Dr. Ene Ergma, President of the Riigikogu
Ms. Anneli Entson, Advisor to the President of the Riigikogu
09.30: Mrs. Pavithra Wanniarachchi (M.P., Attorney at Law, Hon. Minister of Technology and Research, Sri Lanka)
09.29: Peter Maurer (State Secretary, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland)
Urs Bucher (Ambassador of Switzerland to Japan, Embassy of Switzerland, Tokyo)
09.28: The Commonwealth of Australia Mr. Bruce Miller (Ambassador, The Australian Embassy)
06.27: The Republic of Poland Mr. Miroslaw Sielatycki (Deputy Minister of Education)
03.04: The United States of America
Mr. Barry Lord (Co-president, Lord Cultural Resources)
Mrs. Gail Dexter Lord (Co-president, Lord Cultural Resources)
03.03: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Hon. Truong Hoa Binh (Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court)
Mrs. Nguyen Minh Phuong (Spouse of the Chief Justice)
Hon. Nguyen Hong Son (Chief Judge of Appellate Court of the Supreme People's Court in Danang)
Mr. Nguyen Van Thuan (Secretary of the Chief Justice)
Mr. Pham Ngoc Ha (Director of Organization and Personnel Department, the Supreme People's Court)
Mr. Chu Trung Dung (Deputy Director of International Cooperation Department, the Supreme People's Court)
03.02: Republic of Estonia
Ms. Tea Danilov (Director of Economic Development Department, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications of Estonia)
Dr. Gert Jervan (Senior Research Fellow, Tallinn University of Technology, Member of the Estonian Science Foundation's Expert Commission for Physical Sciences and Engineering (IT))
Republic of Latvia
Mr. Mareks Gruskevics (State Secretary, Ministry of Education and Science)
Dr. Janis Stabulnieks (Managing Director, Latvian Technological Center)
Republic of Lithuania
Dr. Nerija Putinaite (Vice-Minister of Education and Science)
Prof. Eugenijus Butkus (Chairman, Research Council of Lithuania)

2010

12.22: Mr. Yoshiaki Takaki (Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
11.18: Ms. Nancy Witty (Executive Director of The International Society for Stem Cell Research)
Mr. James P. Donovan (Conference Director of The International Society for Stem Cell Research)
11.11: Olov Amelin Ph.D. (Director of the Nobel Museum)
11.08: Sir Martin F. Wood (OBE FRS/Honorary President Oxford Instruments plc)
10.28: Mr. Ryuzo Sasaki (Senior Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
10.25: Mr. YAMANAKA, Makoto (Ambassador in charge of Science and Technology Cooperation)
10.22: Joseph Patrick Kennedy III (Assistant District Attorney, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the District Attorney, Cape and Islands District/Executive Board Member, the Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps)
10.21: Ms. Aleida GUEVARA March（Pediatrician）
10.20: His Excellency Stefan Noree'n (the Ambassador of Sweden)
10.11: H. E. Dr. Ligia Amada Melo de Cardona (Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, the Dominican Republic）
H. E. Mr. Pedro Verges (Ambassador of the Dominican Republic in Japan）
10.01: Dr. Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart（Scientific Advisor of the State Council, Republic of Cuba）
09.30: Prof. Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf (President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
09.13: Ms. Cornelia Quennet-Thielen (State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Federal Republic of Germany)
08.19: Mr. Tomihisa Taue （Mayor of Nagasaki City）
07.21: H.E. Mrs. Patricia Cardenas Santa Maria(Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Colombia to Japan)
Mrs. Nohora Elizabeth Hoyos(Director of Maloka)
05.31: H.E. Mr. Seiji Morimoto (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the Sultanate of Oman)
03.27: Mr. Sakihito Ozawa （Minister of the Environment）
03.24: H.E. Mrs. Patricia Cardenas Santa Maria (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Colombia to Japan)
03.24: Dr. PARK Youngah (Member of the National Assembly, Republic of Korea)
02.26: H.E. Mrs. Zohreh ELAHIAN（Parliament member of the Islamic Republic of Iran）
H.E. Mr. Seyed Ahmad LOTFI ASHTIYANI（Parliament member of the Islamic Republic of Iran）
H.E. Mr. Abdolhossein NASERI（Parliament member of the Islamic Republic of Iran）
Mrs. Masoureh SHARIFI（Minister Counsellor/Deputy Chief of Mission）
02.14: Mr. Michael Barratt (NASA Astronaut)
Mr. Gennady Padalka (RSA Cosmonaut)
Mr. Roman Romanenko (RSA Cosmonaut)
Mr. Frank De Winne (ESA Astronaut)
Dr. Robert Thirsk (CSA Astronaut)
01.14: Mr. Ken Sunquist (Assistant Deputy Minister, Asia and Africa and Chief Trade Commissioner, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada）
H. E. Mr. Jonathan T. Fried (Ambassador）

2009

12.27: Dr. Shang-Hi Rhee (Director General, Gwacheon National Science Musuem, Republic of Korea)
12.14: H. E. Mrs. Maria Auxiliadora Delgado de Vazquez (First Lady of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay)
H. E. Dr. Pedro Vaz Ramela (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
H. E. Mrs. Ana Maria Estevez（Ambassador of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay to Japan）
12.06: Guest: H. E. Mr. Bruno Eduardo Rodriguez Parrilla (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Cuba)
11.20: Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado
11.08: Mr. Masaharu Nakagawa (Senior Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
11.06: Spanish participants of XII Forum Japan-Spain
10.01: Mr. Yoshinori Katori (Ambassador for ASEAN/Ambassador in charge of Science and Technology Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
10.01: Mrs. Margit Fischer (Spouse of the Federal President of the Republic of Austria)
07.26: Seiko Noda (Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, Food Safety)
Toshio Yamauchi (Senior Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
04.12: Tracy E. Caldwell（NASA Astronaut）
Scott J. Kelly（NASA Astronaut）
Douglas H. Wheelock（NASA Astronaut）
04.12: H. E. Mr. Bozidar Djelic (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia)
03.29: Total of 60 people, 8 ambassadors to Japan, embassy members of 23 countries and boards of tourism of 2 countries
03.25: Makoto Kobayashi (Professor emeritus of High Energy Accelerator Research Organization/Winner of 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Toshihide Maskawa (Professor of Kyoto Sangyo University/Winner of 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics)
03.23: Dr. So-Yeon Lee　(First Korean astronaut)
02.18: Dr. Lou-Chuang LEE (Minister of National Science Council, Taiwan)
02.12: H. E. Mr. Jose Fernandez de Cossio Rodriguez (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba to Japan)

2008

11.18: Senator the Hon Kim Carr (Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Australia)
11.08: H. E. Mr. Saul ARANA Castellon (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua to Japan)
10.28: His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales
10.24: Akira Amari (Minister of State for Administrative Reform, Regulatory Reform)
10.08: Dr. Mauro Dell'Ambrogio (State Secretary for Education and Research, Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA)
08.18: Ms. Seiko Noda (Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy)
07.12: Mr. Edward Michael (Mike) Fincke (Astronaut from NASA)
Dr. Sandra H. Magnus (Astronaut from NASA)
Ms. Nicole Passonno Stott (Astronaut from NASA)
Dr. Koichi Wakata (Astronaut from JAXA)
06.08: Mr. Yasuo Fukuda (Prime Minister of Japan)
Mr. Kisaburo Tokai (Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Mr. J. Thomas Scieffer (The U.S. Ambassador to Japan)
06.05: Dr. Rudolph Arthur Marcus (Professor of California Institute of Technology/Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1992)
06.02: Dr. Peter Grünberg (Professor of Jülich Research Centre/Nobel Laureate in Physics)
05.15: Mr. Masaru Hashimoto (Governor of Ibaraki Prefecture）
04.16: Rajendra K. Pachauri, Ph.D. (The Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC))
04.12: Dr. and Ms. Christer Fuglesang (Astronaut from ESA)
Mr. and Ms. Stefan Noreen (Ambassador of Sweden)
03.10: Dr. Ichiro Kamoshita (Minister of the Environment/Doctor of Medicine)
03.05: Mr. Kisaburo Tokai (Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
03.03: H. E. Ms. Sanjaasuren OYUN (Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mongolia)
02.02: Janice E. Voss (Astronaut from NASA)
Robert (Bob) Thirsk (Astronaut from CSA)
Mr. Frank De Winne (Astronauts from ESA) and Mrs. Lena Winne
Andre Kuipers (Astronaut from ESA)

2007

11.17: Dr. Ursula Renold (Director of the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology, Ministry of Economics, the Swiss Confederation)
10.31: Mr. Fumio Kishida (Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, Science and Technology Policy)
10.31: H.E. Dr. Peter Bieri-Luthiger (President of the Swiss Council of States)
10.15: Mr. Samdech HENG Samrin (President of the National Assembly, Kingdom of Cambodia)
09.15: Dr. Suvit Yodmani (Minister of Tourism and Sports, Kingdom of Thailand)
08.23: Mr. Ryouji Noyori, Mr. Morio Ikeda, Ms. Kayoko Ebina, Ms. Yuka Shinagawa, Mr. Daisaku Kadokawa, members of Education Rebuilding Council and Ms. Eriko Yamatani, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister (in charge of Education Rebuilding)
08.13: Taku Satoh (Designer)
07.23: Mr. Akihiko Noro (Governor of Mie Prefecture)
07.11: Mr. Pascal Couchepin (Head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs, Vice President of the Swiss Confederation in 2007)
06.22: Dr. Yongyuth Yuthavong (Minister of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Thailand)
06.22: Participants attending ASPAC 2007: Approximately 120 members
06.13: Mr. Toshiaki Endo (Senior Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology/Member of the House of Representatives)
06.09: H. E. Dip. Jorge Zermeno Infante (President of the Chamber of Deputies, United Mexican States)
06.04: Dr. Jiang Mianheng (Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
05.28: Mr. John Polk Allen (inventor, and co-founder of the Biosphere 2 )
04.28: Mission of Digital IT Products and Related Materials and Components
04.23: Dr. Ronald M. Sega (Under Secretary of the Air Force/Astronaut)
04.16: YBM Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor (Minister of Tourism, Malaysia)
04.02: H.E. Prof. Turner Timinipre ISOUN (Honourable Minister of Science and Technology, Federal Republic of Nigeria)
03.29: Dr. Michiko Imai (Medical Doctor/Climber), Wintering party of the 47th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), Summer party of the 48th JARE
03.12: Mrs. Janette Howard (Wife of Australian Prime Minister)
03.11: Mr. Haji Mohd Jaafar bin Haji Awang Bakar (CEO of Brunei National Petroleum Company/Vice President of Brunei Japan Friendship Association, Brunei Darussalam)
03.08: Mr. Toshiei Mizuochi (Member of the Upper House/Parliamentary Secretary for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
02.19: Dr. Emlyn Koster (President & CEO of Liberty Science Center, USA)
Professor Graham Durant (Director of Questacon, Australia)
02.11: Dr. Pichai Sonchaeng (President of National Science Museum, Thailand)
02.07: Mr. Didier Quentin (Member of National Assembly/Chairman of the France-Japan Parliamentarians' Friendship League, France)

2006

12.25: Ms. Sanae Takaichi (Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy)
11.20: Ambassadors and Ministers from the various foreign diplomatic corps stationed in Tokyo
11.17: 18th Term Members of the Board of the Engineering, Science Council of Japan
11.13: H. E. Mr. Jorge Albert Lepra (Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining of Oriental Republic of Uruguay)
Dr. Ana Maria Estevez Mercader (Ambassador of Oriental Republic of Uruguay)
10.27: Dr. Neil G. Kotler (Representative of the Cultural and Museum Marketing Consultants)
10.18: Dr. Hung-Duen Yang, Deputy Minister of National Science Council, Taiwan
10.18: Mr. Mamoru Takahara (Music Director & Conductor, New York Symphonic Ensemble (NYSE))
10.05: Mr. Momofuku Ando (founder and chairman of Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd.)
09.04: Dr. Per Eriksson, Director General of VINNOVA, Kingdom of Sweden
08.21: Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn，　Kingdom of Thailand
07.12: Dr. Kim Woo-Sik (Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Science and Technology of Republic of Korea)
07.05: Ms. Carme Chacon Piqueras (First Deputy Speaker, the Congress of Deputies, Spain)
06.22: Ms. Shana Dale (Deputy Administrator of NASA)
Dr. James Reilly (Astronaut)
05.18: H.E. Dr. Pravich Rattanapian (Minister of Science and Technology, Thailan
05.15: Mr. Guillaume Boudy (Director of La Villette in France)
Ms. Brigitte Coutant (Assistant Chief of International Affairs of La Villette)
04.20: Mr. David Hawker (Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Australia)
04.06: Mr. Alistair Murray McLean OAM (Ambassador to Japan)
03.09: Dr. Chung-Won CHO (Director General, National Science Museum, Republic of Korea)
03.08: Dr. Dragan Primorac (Minister of Science, Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia)
Dr. Drago Stambuk (Ambassador)
02.19: H.E. Mr. Hisham Badr (Ambassador of Egypt)
Dr. Ismail Serageldin (Director of The Library of Alexandria)

2005

10.24: Prof. Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin (Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, CEO Emeritus of Beth Israel Hospital and Care Group)
10.23: Prof. Dr. Laurence R. Young (Professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10.23: Alexei A. Abrikosov (Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.A)
09.26: Dr. Abdelkader Semmari (Chairman of the Diet member's League for Algeria-Japan Friendship)
09.15: Prof. Dr. Frieder Meyer-Krahmer (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research State Secretary)
Prof. Peter Gruss (President, Max Planck Society)
H.E. Henrik Schmiegelow (The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany)
Prof. Emeritus Masatoshi Koshiba (The University of Tokyo)
Mr. Tomoyoshi Naruo (President, BASF Japan Ltd.)
Dr. Ryoji Noyori (President, RIKEN)
Mr. Kohei Manabe (Representative Director, Corporate Advisor, Nippon Television Network Corporation)
Mr. Akio Yuki (Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
08.08: Dr. Ghanim Alwan Al-Jumaily
(Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq)
06.23: Mr. Derek Hanekom (Deputy Minister of Science and Technology of the Republic of South Africa)
06.17: Dr. Maw-Kuen Wu (Minister of the National Science Council of Taiwan), Dr. Chun-Chen Liao (Deputy Minister of the National Science Council of Taiwan), Dr. Gou-chung Chi (Deputy Minister of the National Science Council of Taiwan)
05.29: H. E. Prof. Ms. Anna Psarouda-Benaki (Greek Parliament President)
05.23: Dr. Jhing-Fa Wang (Director General of the National Science and Technology Museum, Taiwan)
04.28: Mr. Timothy Hart (Director, Information,
Multimedia and Technology, Museum Victoria)
Mr. D. Barry Moncur (Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development of the Victoria State Government)
03.29: Mr. David Leverton (Director of the Science Alive!)
03.15: Reona (Leo) Ezaki (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics)
02.05: Ms. Feher Anettka (Astronaut candidate, TV personality of Budapest TV)

2004

12.17: Ms. Motoko Ishii (lighting designer)
11.11: Dr. Kathie L. Olsen (Associate Director / Office of Science and Technology Policy(OSTP))
09.30: Dr. Aldona Jonaitis (Director of the University of Alaska, Museum of the North)
09.29: Mr. Paul F. Donahue (Executive Director of the CSTMC)
09.25: Dr. Chew Tuan Chiong (Director of the Singapore Science Centre)
09.13: Mr. YIP Chee-kuen (Chief Curator of the Hong Kong Science Museum)
09.06: Mr. Donald Pettit (NASA Astronaut)
08.11: Mr. Shuntaro Tanigawa (poet)
08.05: Mr. Zhiguang Qian (Deputy Director of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum)
07.28: Shimrath C. Paul (Director of the Otago Museum)
06.30: Mr. Jun Aoki (Designer of the event site for the exhibition, “Beyond Fibers”)
Mr. Hideki Nakajima (Designer of the graphics and catalogues for the exhibition “Beyond Fibers”)
06.23: Mr. Luis Guillermo Martinez Mora
(Director of the Board of Education of Jalisco State of Mexico, Director of Trompo Magico)
06.10: Sergei Avdeyev (astronaut)
05.19: Professor Graham Durant (Director of Questacon)
Mr. Brenton Honeyman (Executive Operations Manager of Questacon)
03.15: Mr. George Takei (Actor and Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Japanese
American National Museum)

2003

12.24: Mr. Issei Miyake (fashion designer)
12.24: Dr. Ryoji Noyori
(winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 2001 and President of RIKEN)
12.23: Mr. Imura (Member of Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office, Japan)
Mr. Busquin (Commissioner for Research of European Commission)
Ms. Haignere (Minister for Research and New Technology, France)
Mr. Marburger (Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, USA)
Mr. King (Chief Scientific Adviser and, concurrently, Head of the Office of Science and Technology, UK)
Mr. Golden (Honorary Secretary-General, Carnegie Foundation, USA)
(No special order is observed in the above.)
12.06: Dr. Timothy Hunt
(Biochemist, and Chief Researcher, Imperial Cancer Research Fund)
11.05: Dr. James E. Lovelock (biophysicist)
Mr. Bruce Bailey (President of Swatch Group Japan)
11.05: Dr. Yoshihide Hayashizaki
(Project Director, Riken Research Institute)
10.01: Sir Stephen Gomersall (British Ambassador)
09.11: Dr. Donald A. Thomas (NASA International Space Station Program Scientist, Astronaut)
08.08: Mr. Ingo Gunther(Artist, Journalist)
07.18: Mr. David Chittenden (Vice President of Education, Science Museum of Minnesota)
07.17: Super-Kamiokande(Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), University of Tokyo)
07.02: Mr. Junichiro Koizumi (Prime Minister of Japan)
06.27: Dr. Paul Davies (Physicist)
05.28: Mr. RYU (DJ)
05.26: Mr. Bjorn Haugstad(State Secretary, Ministry of Education and Research, Norway)
05.14: Lord Sainsbury (Department of Trade and Industry/Minister for Science and Innovatio
04.21: Mr. Huang Timao (Vice Director of China Science and Technology Museum)
04.04: Mr. Maw-Kuen Wu ph.D. (Director of Institute of Physics)
03.25: Dr. Masatoshi Koshiba (Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo)
Mr. Koichi Tanaka (Scientist of Shimadzu Corporation)
Mr. Jin Akiyama (Deputy Manager of Research Institute of Educational Development, Tokai University)
03.18: Mintos (Artist)
The Exhibition of "TIME! TIME! TIME! Exploration of Time" Opening Event
03.13: 6500 Meters Beneath the Sea
02.25: Hossain B. Danesh (psychiatrist)
02.18: Patrick Kociolek (Curator of the California Academy of Sciences)
01.22: Aya Yoda (Violinist)
01.21: Yumi Matsutoya (Artist)
01.16: British National Space Center
01.16: National Geographic Society
William S. Whale (Senior Vice President)
Lori Butterfield (Senior Producer)
01.08: Ryuichi Sakamoto (Artist)

2002

12.12: Shinichi Ueyama (Research Professor, Georgetown University, U.S.)
Ikuko Inaba (RMN Japan)
12.02: Marc Garneau (President of the Canadian Space Agency)
10.31: Benoit Mandelbrot (Mathematician/named fractals)
10.30: Harold Kroto (Scientist/Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry)
10.29: Godzilla
09.25: Michael Zasloff (Biologist)

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