Guests from Japan and Overseas

Miraikan welcomes many researchers and famous personalities from Japan and overseas. This section introduces the guests that visit Miraikan.

February 12, 2009

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba to Japan

H. E. Mr. Jose Fernandez de Cossio Rodriguez

November 18, 2008

Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Australia

Senator the Hon Kim Carr

November 8, 2008

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua to Japan

H. E. Mr. Saul ARANA Castellon

October 28, 2008

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

October 24, 2008

Minister of State for Administrative Reform, Regulatory Reform

Akira Amari

August 18, 2008

Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy

Ms. Seiko Noda

July 12, 2008

Astronaut from NASA

Mr. Edward Michael (Mike) Fincke

Astronaut from NASA

Dr. Sandra H. Magnus

Astronaut from NASA

Ms. Nicole Passonno Stott

Astronaut from JAXA

Dr. Koichi Wakata

June 8, 2008

Prime Minister of Japan

Mr. Yasuo Fukuda

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Mr. Kisaburo Tokai

The U.S. Ambassador to Japan

Mr. J. Thomas Scieffer

June 5, 2008

Professor of California Institute of Technology/Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1992

Dr. Rudolph Arthur Marcus

June 2, 2008

Professor of Jülich Research Centre/Nobel Laureate in Physics

Dr. Peter Grünberg

May 15, 2008

Governor of Ibaraki Prefecture

Mr. Masaru Hashimoto

April 16, 2008

The Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Rajendra K. Pachauri, Ph.D.

April 12, 2008

Astronaut from ESA

Dr. and Ms. Christer Fuglesang

Ambassador of Sweden

Mr. and Ms. Stefan Noreen

March 10, 2008

Minister of the Environment/Doctor of Medicine

Dr. Ichiro Kamoshita

March 5, 2008

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Mr. Kisaburo Tokai

March 3, 2008

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mongolia

H. E. Ms. Sanjaasuren OYUN

February 2, 2008

Astronaut from NASA

Janice E. Voss

Astronaut from CSA

Robert (Bob) Thirsk

Astronauts from ESA

Mr. Frank De Winne and Mrs. Lena Winne

Astronaut from ESA

Andre Kuipers

October 31, 2007

Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, Science and Technology Policy

Mr. Fumio Kishida