The Biohistory Journal is engaged every day in an inquiry that involves reading the historical tale of life as written on the genome, and asking what it is to be alive, where we came from, where we are going, and what is nature. In fact, we are conducting research that focuses on the historicity, commonality, and diversity of life. The understanding gained in the course of this research through mathematical formulas and quantification has created doubts in the framework that is science. At that time, nature encountered the language expressed with the icons of formulas and words, and we thought, this is it! The theme for this year is narration.     Dialog features Dr. Kodaira, an old friend who tells tales of space through the Subaru telescope. We have journeyed together in search of new knowledge. Research features Yoshinori Yasuda, who reads stories told by stripes in the earth. He is passionately interested in a new scholarship that contemplates the future of humankind. Keiichi Omura's stories of the Inuit put us in mind of "narration" itself. Junichi Aoki has spent 40 years studying oribatid mites. His love of nature and slow but steady method of scholarship are filled with narration I want many people to know about. (Keiko Nakamura)

Through Dialogs  Narration Cosmohistory and Biohistory Connecting understanding with values  Keiichi Kodaira, President, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies Keiko Nakamura, Gneral Director, JT Biohistory Research Hall  Through Research  Narrative science The relationship between the environment and civilization and the near future told by annual laminated sediment sequence  Yoshinori Yasuda, International Research Center for Japanese Studies The potential of the science of the wild: Inuit knowledge and modern science  Keiichi Omura, The Faculty of Language and Culture, Osaka University  Through People What we learned about nature with the oribatid mite classification  Jun-ichi Aoki, Professor Emeritus, Yokohama National University; Director, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History  BRH News From Lab : A day in the life of a researcher  Lab: Coevolutionary interaction between insects and plants << Back Next >>