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The Brief #43 Poison to medicine, Fuji five lakes

Toshi Maeda by Toshi Maeda
02/02/2023
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The venom in some snake or spider bites can cause severe illness, even death, but a Japanese company is looking to tap into animal poisons to make medicines that save lives instead, Summer 2023 will mark 10 years since Mount Fuji was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Now there are plans to combine national park settings with urban convenience to make the region Japan’s first “green metropolis.”

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A multilingual journalist with over 25 years of experience in the media industry, Maeda worked as a producer and correspondent for Reuters TV in Tokyo after stints as a reporter at The Japan Times, The Associated Press in San Francisco, Newsday in New York, and The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California. Maeda has also taught journalism at Komazawa University’s Faculty of Global Media Studies. Currently, he serves as executive editor for solutions-focused bilingual news platform J-Stories, a PBMC media outlet.

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