3 day student workshop 20252025.09.13-09.15 Noriko Higashi This year marks the fourth time the Lighting Design Workshop has been held. Nineteen students gathered from all over Japan to spend three days thoroughly learning about lighting des…

2025.06.26 Yumi Honda +Qiaoxi Wang+ Momoe Nomura We observed and recorded the nighttime light environment of the newly developed commercial complex Senkyaku Banrai in the Tokyo Bay Area and its surrounding public spaces (green plaza, statio…

Interviewer: Lin Huangyi (Akira) Akira：Mende-san, today I’d like to talk about the cost of losing dark sky. Perhaps we can continue our chat starting from the elevator as a warm-up to recall the value of starlight. What’s your most memorabl…

Interviewer: Momoe Nomura Nomura： When I was in grade school I was deeply hurt and had a painful experience while interacting with other people.  I was given a hurtful nickname, others made fun of my home situation, and things were thrown a…