Research highlighted in media

• Galaxies flare up

  • Research highlight of Nature, Feb. 17, 2005

• Constructing a 3D Map of the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe

  • NAOJ press release (August 7, 2013)

  • 3D distant galaxy map movie (youtube)

  • This is by the project FastSound using Subaru Telescope, in which I served as the principal investigator.

• Newly Discovered Fast Radio Bursts May be Colliding Neutron Stars

  • featured in UNIVERSE TODAY, August 2013

• Distant Stellar Explosion Helps Map Universe's Dark Ages: Researchers use gamma ray burst to probe when the first stars lit up

  • News featured in Science, May 2, 2014

• Scientists finally track down the source of mysterious radio bursts

  • Washington Post (Feb. 25, 2016)

  • paper in Nature

• New test by deepest galaxy map finds Einstein’s theory stands true

  • press release from Univ. Tokyo (May 11, 2016)

  • the final scientific result of the FastSound project (see also the press release in 2013 above in this page)

  • 3D distant galaxy map movie (youtube)

• Dark energy’s weakness may be why supernovae didn’t kill us all

  • news featured in Science (May, 2018)

• Is life a game of chance? Study reveals life in the universe could be common, but not in our neighborhood

  • UTokyo research

  • Fox news