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WE STILL HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR MAKING A GREAT DISCOVERY FOR THE HUMAN BEINGS. CHALLENGES TO UNEXPLORED EXTREME CONDITIONS ARE THE KEY TO MAKE THE BREAKTHROUGH.

“Gijyutsu” in Japanese can be translated to “engineering”, or “technique”, or sometimes “art”. That is a word given by my class teacher to me when I was a high school student. I thought that he suggested me to utilize the scientific techniques for my future job. I have been working on the research of high magnetic fields for twenty-two years since I started the bachelor thesis study. Generation of high magnetic fields may sound simple and rather easy. However, it actually requires advanced techniques and therefore there are lots of unsolved physical problems that require the high magnetic fields. It is very exciting to conduct the experiments at extremely high magnetic fields that are only available in our laboratory. We have many chances to solve such interesting and important issues. A material that we think we understand very well may behave very differently in high magnetic fields owing to its excited state that is usually hidden in a normal condition. There are opportunities to discover new and important phenomena at the very high magnetic fields. In condensed matter physics, we treat 1023 atoms and only know a part of the phenomena given by them. In experimental research of material science, a researcher basically proceeds with his or her work independently. It is quite exciting and a really good experience to find something new by his or her own experiment. In the microscopic world of matter we still have lots of possibilities of great discoveries. Why don’t you join this exciting and challenging research?