Mit Japan Program News Today

Since 1988, Hiroko Matsuyama, a master instructor of the Ohara School of Ikebana, has worked with MIT students on the basics of the ancient art of Japanese flower arrangement.

At the end of June, after a two-decade tenure at the MIT Center for International Studies, Richard Samuels plans to step down. He will remain an active faculty member in the Department of Political Science and its Security Studies Program. Evan Lieberman, the current director of MISTI, will take on the leadership of CIS.

Ten years after 3.11, Richard Samuels answers three questions about the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011.