Happy New Year! I would like to express my appreciation for your advices and guidance during my first year as Director-General. Thanks to you all, STRL was able to reach the 75th anniversary of ...

as my Lunar New Year greeting. This translates to “a sincere heart brings peace”. Instead of wishing for more fortune, I believe that sincerity and inner peace are what truly matter.

In 1908, Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912), a poet born in Iwate Prefecture, sent a brush-written “nengajo” (New Year’s greeting card) to the linguist Kyosuke Kindaichi (1882-1971), a fellow ...