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Meeting between Mr. Ayman Al Safadi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan and Japanese professors in Tokyo

On 9 May 2025, there was a meeting in Tokyo between Mr. Ayman Al Safadi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of...

  • #Vice President for Academic Research Affairs
  • #Research
  • #Faculty
  • #Department of Global Studies
  • #Department of International Legal Studies
  • #Center for Global Education and Discovery
  • #Faculty of Law
  • #Faculty of Global Studies

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Universal Japanese School Lunch Program Significantly Reduces Obesity Among Teenagers, Especially Those from Lower Socioeconomic Backgrounds

A new study led by Professor Sayaka Nakamura from Sophia University in Japan and Professor Shiko Maruyama from...

  • #Research
  • #Faculty
  • #For Corporate Partners, Press and Media
  • #Master’s (Doctoral) Program in Economics
  • #Department of Economics
  • #Faculty of Economics
  • #Graduate School of Economics

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Sophia University Ranked in Four Subjects in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025

On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, at 7pm (JST), the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 were announced, a...

  • #Academics
  • #Research
  • #For Prospective Students
  • #For Guarantors
  • #For Alumni
  • #For General Public
  • #For Corporate Partners, Press and Media

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The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Visits Sophia University to Establish a Partnership and Interact with Students

On February 20, Dr. Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), .........

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  • #Research
  • #Faculty

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Social Media Posts and Transformer-Based Models for Early Detection of Heat Stroke

Researchers from Japan demonstrate the potential of combining social media posts and deep learning models for ...

  • #Research
  • #Faculty
  • #For Corporate Partners, Press and Media
  • #Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies
  • #Master’s Program in Applied Data Science
  • #Graduate Programs

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Sophia University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam sign Memorandum of Understanding in Amsterdam

Sophia University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

  • #Academics
  • #Research
  • #Studyabroad
  • #Graduateschoolabroad

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Offline versus online promotional media: Which drives better consumer engagement and behavioral responses?

Offline marketing facilitates consumers’ behavioral responses even in the age of digital marketing Marketers t...

  • #Research
  • #Faculty
  • #For Corporate Partners, Press and Media
  • #Department of Management
  • #Faculty of Economics

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From Gender Dysphoria to Special Skills: Decoding the Link

Researchers from Japan investigate the intersection of gender, sensory traits, and savant tendencies across Kl...

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  • #Faculty
  • #For Corporate Partners, Press and Media
  • #Department of Psychology
  • #Faculty of Human Sciences

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Sophia Open Research Weeks 2024 held

Sophia Open Research Weeks have been held since 2014, organized by the Sophia Research Organization to share a...

  • #Research
  • #For General Public

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Research by Professor Kazuhiro Ema, Associate Professor Hideyuki Kunugita, and collaborators published online in the Journal of Chemical Physics and selected as an Editor’s Pick

A research group led by Professor Kazuhiro Ema and Associate Professor Hideyuki Kunugita from the Faculty of S...

  • #Research
  • #Faculty
  • #Master’s & Doctoral Programs in Science and Technology
  • #Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • #Physics Division
  • #Faculty of Science and Technology
  • #Graduate School of Science and Technology

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Single-Stream Image-to-Image Translation (SSIT): A More Efficient Approach to Image Translation

The proposed model uses a single image to extract spatial features such as the shapes, object boundaries, and ...

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  • #Faculty
  • #For Corporate Partners, Press and Media
  • #Department of Information and Communication Sciences
  • #Faculty of Science and Technology

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Awareness without Time? A Deep Look into Timelessness in Deep Meditative States

A researcher from Japan addresses an apparent contradiction in accounts of deep meditation and other fringe st...

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  • #Faculty
  • #For Corporate Partners, Press and Media
  • #Department of Liberal Arts
  • #Faculty of Liberal Arts

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