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JIRCAS Mail Magazine No. 72 (Dec 2025)
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UN Food Systems Coordination Hub Highlights JIRCAS and NARO as “Japan’s Innovation Engine”

On November 28, 2025, the official website of the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, which was established within FAO as a follow-up mechanism of the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), published an online article introducing the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) and the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) as "Japan's Innovation Engine" driving Japan-originated agricultural research innovations.
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251208

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■ Latest Topics
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● The 55th TARF Public Lecture Successfully Held on December 17
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251222

● Fisheries Division Researcher SAITO Minoru Receives Best Oral Presentation Award at the 5th Thailand International Symposium on Natural History Museums (TISNHM 2025)
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251218

● Future Science Talent Academy – 26th Session: First-Year Students from Kumamoto Prefectural Uto High School Learn About the Use of Biotechnology in Agricultural Research
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251217

● Certificates of Appreciation Received from the Minister of Education and Sports of Laos at the 50th Anniversary Ceremony of the Faculty of Agriculture, National University of Laos
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251216

● Future Science Talent Academy – 25th Session: First-Year Students from Fukushima Prefectural Soma Agricultural High School Learn About Rice Breeding in Japan and Around the World
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251215

● Paper by Senior Researchers ARAI Miwa and IKAZAKI Kenta Selected for the JSSSPN English Journal Paper Award
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251209_0

● JIRCAS and Philippine Partner Institutions Review Five Years of Joint Research — Toward On-Site Demonstration of Sugarcane Cultivation Technologies
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251209
  
● Senior Researcher UEDA Yoshiaki Receives the 2025 (24th) Japan Prize in Agricultural Sciences, Achievement Award for Young Scientists
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251208_0

● JIRCAS Exhibits Research Innovations at the Agribusiness Creation Fair 2025
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251203

● Future Science Talent Academy –24th Session: First-Year Students from Saitama Prefectural Kumagaya High School Learn About Transboundary Pests
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251202

● Indonesian Students Visit JIRCAS for Exchange on Tropical Crop Disease Management
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251201

● Symposium Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of International Collaborative Research between JIRCAS and the Fisheries Research Institute (FRI) Held in Penang, Malaysia
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251126

● Future Science Talent Academy – 22nd and 23rd Sessions: First-Year Students from Salesian International School Setagaya Explore the Potential of the Superfood “Quinoa”
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/reports/2025/r20251125

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■ New Technology and Research Results from JIRCAS
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● Development of a new methodology for controlling maturation in the whiteleg shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, using live feeds
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2024_c02

● [Scalable Research Achievement] Breeding and variety registration of “Isan,” the first Urochloa grass variety for the Asian monsoon
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2024_c03

● Hybrid sterility between Asian and African rice can be mitigated by tetraploidization
https://www.jircas.go.jp/en/publication/research_results/2024_c04

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