The amount of lithium in the ocean is almost infinite. As Japan is surrounded by the ocean it can be considered a lithium resource superpower, but a profitable resource recovery technology is indispensable to the creation of new domestic industries. To meet this need, the technology for selective separation and recovery of lithium from seawater has been established by using a Li ion conductive ceramics. As electricity is also generated in the separation process, a zero emission resource recovery capability is foreseen by this world's first lithium recovery technology.
Selected Papers No.20

Animal research is carried out in the wild and in captivity, with both approaches being important in gradually giving us a clearer picture of the Orca, parts of whose life cycle were previously shrouded in mystery. Though many aspects of the breeding and early development processes have remained inaccessible to research in the wild, knowledge about these matters has been gained at Kamogawa Sea World through breeding in captivity.

In recent years one of the major topics in microbiology has been microbiome research. For example, in the human body, there are one to ten times as many microbial cells, of many types, as human cells, and they play important roles in maintaining our health. In agriculture, research on the soil and plant microbiome has progressed, and is calling the increased harvests and quality enhancement the result of a "microorganism revolution. ENext, we look forward to a microorganism revolution in the ocean.