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Attention English teachers in Japan!! I have a great opportunity for your middle school students. I am organizing a contest for an all-expenses trip to Space Camp in the USA for a teacher and two students. I live in Tokyo but do not have many connections with schools in Japan. I thought...

The University of Tokyo has launched a great program that might be of interest to anyone who is an undergraduate student living abroad and wants to study in Tokyo. The Global Science Course (GSC) is a new undergraduate 2 year-long transfer program for chemistry students. It was designed to...

The Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館, fune-no-kagakukan) in Odaiba. The museum was closed for the public on September 30, 2011, due to lack of financial resources. It remains unclear whether it will be reopened or not.

View of the Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館), with the ice breaker Soya in the foreground.

View of the Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館), with the aft section of the Yotei-maru and the ice breaker Soya in the foreground.

The mascots of the Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館), Umimoru and Umin.

A model of a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier displayed at the Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館).

Boating knots displayed at the Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館).

Boating knots displayed at the Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館).

The ice breaker Soya moored next to the Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館).

Japanese naval ranks displayed at the Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館).

A original-size bridge displayed at the Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館).

The last remaining flying boat of the type Kawanishi H8K2 (Type 2) originally displayed at the Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館 fune-no-kagakukan), meanwhile transferred and exhibited at the Kanoya Naval Air Base Museum in Kagoshima.

The Soya and the Yotei-maru anchored in Odaiba next to the Museum of Maritime Science (船の科学館)

Model of an traditional Japanese sailing boat (hybrid type) displayed at the Museum of Maritime Science in Odaiba.

Model of an traditional Japanese sailing boat (kitamaebune, literally northern-bound ships) displayed at the Museum of Maritime Science in Odaiba. Their route went from Osaka through the Seto Inland Sea and the Kanmon Straits to ports in Hokuriku on the Sea of Japan and later to Hokkaido.

Model of an traditional Japanese sailing boat (bezaisen) displayed at the Museum of Maritime Science in Odaiba.

Model of an ancient house boat displayed at the Museum of Maritime Science in Odaiba (船の科学館).

Speed boat displayed at the Museum of Maritime Science in Odaiba (船の科学館).

Whaling harpoon at the Museum of Maritime Science in Odaiba (船の科学館).