Media release
2024
June 1st (Sat) and June 8th (Sat) 2024 BS-TV Tokyo "Yoshio Ichiyanagi Questions the Future of Japan"
April 14, 2024 (Sunday) Yomiuri Shimbun "Next-generation solar cells cannot be defeated"
April 5, 2024 (Friday) Nihon Keizai Shimbun "Demonstration of thin and flexible solar cells, Kanagawa Prefecture collaborates with developers"
March 28, 2024 (Thursday) Abema ANN News "Domestically produced 'perovskite solar cells'" aiming for sales within next year"
March 16, 2024 (Sat) CNET Japan "IST and Toin University of Yokohama jointly develop perovskite solar cells using transparent polyimide"
Sunday, February 25, 2024 TV Asahi Shuzo Matsuoka's "Everybody's Sunny" "Energy Revolution with Ultra-thin Solar Cells Made in Japan"
Saturday, February 10, 2024 Kanagawa TV Hama Navi "The invention of perovskite solar cells"
January 31, 2024 (Wednesday) BS-TV Tokyo Science from the Living Room (rebroadcast), Science Broadcasting Takayanagi Prize commemorative broadcast
January 18, 2024 (Thursday) SPEEDA Seminar Live Internet Broadcast "Can Japan Win with Perovskite?"
2023
January 1, 2024 (Monday) TV Tokyo "Audrey Wakabayashi: Economics Starts"
Sunday, December 24, 2023 Radio FM Yokohama "Yokohama My Choice"! New technology from Yokohama! Perovskite solar cells
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 NHK Radio 1 "Nraji"
September 24, 2023 (Sunday) TV Asahi "Renewable Energy Special"
Saturday, September 9, 2023 TV Asahi "Saturday Station"
Monday, August 14, 2023 TV-BS11 "News Live Inside OUT"
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 BS TV Tokyo "Nikkei Morning Plus FT"
July 22, 2023 (Saturday) BS-TBS TV "Biz Square"
Thursday, July 6, 2023 Radio Bunka Broadcasting "Murakami Shingo-kun and Economics-kun"
June 22, 2023 (Thursday) CBC Radio "Feeling Refreshed! Shigeo Tada's Morning PON"
Sunday, June 11, 2023, Nippon Television "Shuichi"
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 Kanagawa Television "NewsLink"
April 13, 2023 (Thursday) NHK Radio 1 "Radio Midnight News" (Words for Tomorrow)
Wednesday, April 19, 2023: Science from the Living Room (new program), introduction of perovskite solar cells
Fiscal Year 2022
February 19, 2023 (Sunday) ABEMA Morning "Yokohama City to commercialize next-generation solar cells developed by Toin University of Yokohama"
Thursday, February 16, 2023 Weekly Playboy News "'Fully domestic production' is possible! Here's what's amazing about Japan-made Perovskite solar cells"
Saturday, February 11, 2023 TV Asahi TV Asahi NEWS "Japan's first demonstration experiment of 'next-generation solar cells' in a public space"
February 10, 2023 (Friday) Yomiuri Shimbun "Toin Gakuen School Corporation and Yokohama City Sign Partnership Agreement to Work to Realize a Carbon-Free Society Using Perovskite Solar Cells"
February 10, 2023 (Friday) Mainichi Shimbun "Thin, light and flexible solar cells, implementation research: Yokohama City and Toin University of Yokohama collaborate"
February 10, 2023 (Friday) Kanagawa Shimbun "Thin, light and flexible solar cells that can be installed anywhere and generate electricity even in the rain - Yokohama City and Toin Gakuen sign partnership agreement to put them to practical use"
February 10, 2023 (Friday) Tokyo Shimbun "From Yokohama! Solar cells to be put to practical use. Demonstration experiment on the 11th in the free passage of Aobadai Station. Developed by Professor Miyasaka of Toin University of Yokohama"
February 10, 2023 (Friday) Kanagawa Television "Yokohama City and Toin Gakuen Sign Partnership Agreement to Utilize Next-Generation Solar Cells"
February 9th (Thursday) and 10th (Friday), 2023: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, "Yokohama City conducts demonstration experiment on next-generation solar cells with Toin Gakuen and Tokyu", Mainichi Shimbun, "Thin, light and flexible solar cells, implementation research Yokohama City and Toin University of Yokohama collaborate", Yahoo!News, and other newspapers
Tokyo Shimbun, Sunday, November 27, 2022 "Flexible solar cells: Perovskite-type solar cells from Japan to the world - Developer Miyasaka: People development is key"
Friday, November 4, 2022 Yomiuri Shimbun Word Album "Try anything to create the next generation of solar cells"
Friday, September 23, 2022, Nihon Keizai Shimbun "'Japan is ready to learn from China' - Interview with inventor Tsutomu Miyasaka"
July 13, 2022 (Wednesday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Perovskite solar cells: 'Practical application in sight! Development accelerating'"
Fiscal Year 2021
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 CHEMISTRY & CHEMICAL INDUSTRY "Thin, lightweight, and flexible perovskite solar cells"
Friday, October 22, 2021, Dempa Shimbun "Advanced Technology: Perovskite Solar Cells a Nobel Prize Candidate" Professor Tsutomu Miyasaka, Toin University of Yokohama
Friday, October 15, 2021: Dempa Shimbun "The whole town is a power plant"
September 3, 2021 (Friday) Nihon Keizai Shimbun "Solar cells mass-produced at half the cost"
June 7, 2021 (Monday) Shizuoka Shimbun Science "Next-generation solar cells generate electricity anywhere, on walls and car bodies"
May 29, 2021 (Saturday) Gifu Shimbun "Film-type solar cells generate electricity on building walls and car bodies"
Wednesday, May 19, 2021, Kyoto Shimbun Science Scope "Development of film-type solar cells"
May 1, 2021 (Saturday) Kahoku Shimpo Science "Solar cells: thin, light, and generate electricity anywhere"
April 27, 2021 (Tuesday) Fukushima Minpo Culture "Next-generation solar cells: Generate electricity anywhere, on walls and cars"
Monday, April 26, 2021 San-in Chuo Shimpo Science Scope "Next-generation solar cells generate electricity anywhere, on walls and in cars"
April 19, 2021 (Monday) Chubu Keizai Shimbun Science "Thin and lightweight, the trump card of renewable energy: Next-generation solar cells generate electricity anywhere, on walls and car bodies"
April 19, 2021 (Monday) Shinano Mainichi Shimbun Science "Power Generation from Building Walls and Car Bodies"
Saturday, April 10, 2021 Kobe Shimbun Science "The trump card of renewable energy: Thin solar cells generate electricity anywhere"
July 19, 2021 (Monday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Pexel's small robot automatically applies perovskite films"
June 28, 2021 (Monday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Film-type solar cells improved with antimalarial drug, conversion efficiency exceeds 21% at Toin University of Yokohama"
Fiscal Year 2020
January 4, 2021 (Monday) Nihon Keizai Shimbun, front page "The fourth revolution, carbon zero, the day when electricity is generated by curtains: the foundation of the new order of 'green energy'", page 3 "My view: drastic energy conservation is necessary"
Fiscal Year 2019
May 16, 2019 (Thursday) Yomiuri Shimbun Research Frontier "Lightweight and Flexible Solar Cells"
Fiscal Year 2018
January 24, 2019 (Thursday) Mainichi Shimbun Science Forest "Japan's slow response to new fields: next-generation solar cells become 'donut-shaped'"
Wednesday, October 3, 2018, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, "Low-temperature inkjet deposition of perovskite on resin substrate"
June 5, 2018 (Tuesday) Nihon Keizai Shimbun "Japan's innovative power: strengthening the soil (2) Watering withered themes"
May 21, 2018 (Monday) Nihon Keizai Shimbun "Satellite batteries cost 1/10, JAXA and others fold them up and install them"
Fiscal Year 2017
March 15, 2018 (Thursday) Nihon Keizai Shimbun "Solar cells can be used anywhere"
February 17, 2018 (Saturday) Yomiuri Shimbun Science Museum "Various types of solar cells"
November 30, 2017 (Thursday) Yomiuri Shimbun Science "Film-type solar cell developed"
Thursday, November 23, 2017, Mainichi Shimbun, "Solar power generation research and development progresses, spotlight on 'perovskite'"
November 6, 2017 (Monday) Tokyo Shimbun "Materials Revolution: Perovskite Solar Cells, a Powerhouse Surpassing Silicon"
November 1, 2017 (Wednesday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Film-type perovskite solar cells achieve energy conversion efficiency of 18% - Toin University of Yokohama"
Fiscal Year 2016
June 1, 2016 (Wednesday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Pioneering Researcher "Striving to improve resin solar cells" - Introducing research on flexible solar cells 7 with Atsushi Kogo
May 15, 2016 (Sunday) Asahi Shimbun Science News "Competition intensifies over power generation and costs for next-generation solar cells"
April 28, 2016 (Thursday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Lightweight, easily bendable, 30% cost reduction using thin resin"
Fiscal Year 2015
February 2016 issue Forbes JAPAN No19 "A new star in solar cells makes it possible to generate electricity in the city. The day when buildings and trains become power plants"
November 12, 2015 (Thursday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Japan's first solar cell with excellent photovoltaic properties introduced to the world"
November 4, 2015 (Wednesday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "[Deep Section] 'Japan's first' contribution with innovative technology: 'Perovskite' becomes the favorite"
May 23, 2015 (Saturday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Low electron count, 2400 times electron amplification, using inexpensive perovskite"
On Sunday, May 17, 2015, Miyasaka Laboratory researcher Atsushi Kogo was featured on the TBS program "The Origin of the Future" as part of a program introducing young researchers and engineers.
Fiscal Year 2014
February 3, 2015 (Tuesday) Nikkei Business Daily Top 100 Technologies Pioneering 2020 ③ "The day when power plants will no longer exist - Solar power generation on the walls of cars and buildings"
December 20, 2014 (Saturday) Asahi Shimbun "New solar cell that can be simply applied to a substrate - 5 years since invention, accelerating towards practical application"
October 24, 2014 (Friday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Attention on new solar cells from Japan - Before the dawn of perovskite"
August 19, 2014 (Tuesday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Evaluating space solar cells, JAXA and Toin University of Yokohama reproduce environment and confirm resistance"
2013
Nikkei Business Daily, February 10, 2014 (Monday) "Japan's first new solar cell competes for efficiency improvement"
August 20, 2012 (Monday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Dye-sensitized solar cell film type demonstrated"
July 31, 2012 (Tuesday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Dye sensitization and organic thin film fusion: development of a new type of solar cell"
July 20, 2012 (Friday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Challenging Reform - Ask This Person at the University"
May 3, 2012 (Thursday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Photocapacitor - High performance: Ruthenium oxide particles mixed into electrodes"
Shogakukan "DIME" No.13 July 5th issue Smart Energy Special "From Solar Panels to Solar Film"
May 22, 2011 (Sunday) TV Asahi Miracle Earth Story "Skin: Why do we get wrinkles?"
March 5, 2010 (Friday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Dye-sensitized solar cells, made thin with plastic substrates, generate electricity even with indoor lighting"
February 24, 2009 (Tuesday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Plastic dye-sensitized solar cells: durability improved 4-6 times, Toin University of Yokohama to expand applications"
June 30, 2008 (Monday) Nikkei Business Daily "New solar cells put to practical use one after another"
February 27, 2008 (Wednesday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun "Pexel develops solar cell element that can be manufactured by printing method"
February 27, 2008 (Wednesday) Nikkei Business Daily "Plastic dye-sensitized solar cells: 20 times larger in area, Pexel Techno, etc."
February 28, 2008 (Thursday) Fujisankei Business i "Attention on prototypes for iPod... International Solar Cell Exhibition opens in Tokyo"
The technology related to the prototype of large-area film-type dye-sensitized solar cell jointly developed by Pexcell and Fujimori Kogyosha was published with photos in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
November 24, 2007 (Saturday) Asahi Shimbun Networking Corner "Manufacturing" Series
May 8, 2007 (Tuesday) TV Tokyo World Business Satellite (TV Tokyo, May 8) Large flexible solar cells introduced on Trend Tamago
May 16, 2007 (Wednesday) Environmental Newspaper: People who open up new horizons in energy
January 15, 2007 (Monday) Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun: Full plastic dye-sensitized solar cell using carbon nanotubes