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Animal psychologists from Kyoto University create public service video that’s not about cats, but for the animals themselves to watch and learn from.

Japan
(animals • cars • cats • cool • crazy • cute • funny • Kyoto University • pets • public service announcement • safety • video • weird)

Japanese youths anger police by sitting at kotatsu table at busy Kyoto intersection【Video】

Oona McGee
Mar 14, 2018

Locals say it’s all part of a Kyoto University tradition.

Japan
(cars • crazy • Japanese Police • kotatsu • Kyoto • Kyoto University • news • police • roads • traffic • university students • weird)

Amazing graduation project card game made by Kyoto University art student is simply incredible

Koh Ruide
Mar 5, 2018

So well crafted, in fact, that visitors to her exhibition stole some of them!

Japan
(card game • graduation project • Japanese Twitter • Kyoto University • project)

The times they are a-litigious: Kyoto University gets billed for using Bob Dylan lyrics in speech

Master Blaster
May 21, 2017

Japan’s copyright enforcers ask: how many words must a man write down, before he can be shaken down?

Japan, USA
(Blowin in the Wind • Bob Dylan • copyright • JASRAC • Kyoto University)

Kyoto University students let loose at cosplay graduation ceremony【Photos】

Oona McGee
Mar 29, 2017

From beer bottles to Pokémon and short-skirted anime girls, these Japanese students know how to celebrate their last day at university.

Japan
(cosplay • crazy • funny • graduation • graduation ceremony • Kyoto • Kyoto University • students)

Kyoto University study finds that cats have interest in phsyics

Master Blaster
Jun 20, 2016

As long as it’s with regards to Newton’s laws of motion and electromagnets, research shows curiosity does not kill the cat after all.

Cats, Cute, Japan, News
(Kyoto University • physics • research • science)

Everyone from the Cat Bus to Donald Trump showed up to celebrate Kyoto University’s graduation

Meg Murphy
Mar 25, 2016

Graduating from university is an achievement to be proud of, and Kyoto University students don’t hold back in the celebrations!

Japan
(colleges • cosplay • funny • graduation • Kyoto University • twitter)

Statue of “Kirby” Orita-sensei welcomes university entrance exam takers at Kyoto University

Krista Rogers
Feb 28, 2016

This exam season, a statue of an important historical figure at Kyoto University has gotten a Kirby makeover as part of a now yearly tradition.

Japan
(entrance exam • Kirby • Kyoto University • Orita-sensei • prank • statue • tradition)

“Silence Straw” — Kyoto University raising money to fight noises caused by drinking straws

Master Blaster
Feb 18, 2016

The only thing necessary for the triumph of noisy drinking straws is for good men to do nothing. Thankfully, Kotaro Takahashi is taking action, and Kyoto University has his back.

Japan
(drinking straw • Kyoto University • science • Silence Straw • SPEC • technology)

Kyoto professor makes petroleum easily using only water and carbon dioxide…we think

Master Blaster
Oct 6, 2015

Among the many problems presented by using fossil fuels such as petroleum, one of the more pressing issues is their limited and rapidly decreasing supply. Unfortunately, it would take thousands of years of organic matter decomposing and compressing under layers of the Earth to replenish the supply in the manner in which it was first made, and that’s an unlikely business.

But now it’s been reported that a professor from Kyoto University and his team have found a way to create petroleum efficiently and cheaply. Their method uses no energy-consuming high pressures or temperatures and only requires water, petroleum, and carbon dioxide. As a result, it can be done so cheaply that KTV reported 100 yen (US$0.83) of oil can be synthesized using only 3 yen ($0.02) worth of electricity.

It all seems to good to be true, and in fact it may not be true. With published peer-reviewed studies, mysterious television appearances, and lack of mainstream media coverage. We honestly can’t figure out is this amazing breakthrough or not. And neither can anyone else as science enthusiasts take to Twitter to find answers.

Global, Japan
(Kyoto University • oil • petroleum • science • synthesis)

Prestigious Japanese university comes up with cheesecake … made with Gorilla bacteria!

Kay
Aug 8, 2015

Alongside the famed Tokyo University, Kyoto University is definitely one of the top universities in Japan, known in particular for their innovative scientific research. It so happens that the university is currently holding its annual Open Campus event from August 6 to 8, and many prospective students are sure to be visiting for a chance to take a look inside one of the most prestigious institutes of learning in Japan.

Visitors to this year’s event may be surprised to find out, however, that they’ll be able to try a dessert made using a very unique ingredient indeed, and one that was discovered by one of the university’s own research teams — a bacterium found in the gut of gorillas!