In 2007, at Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute, Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa and his team conducted a famous experiment as part of the Ai Project. A young chimpanzee named Ayumu was shown numbers on a screen for just 210 milliseconds before they vanished. His challenge was to tap them in the correct order. Human university students were given the same task — and most failed where Ayumu excelled. The results were astonishing: Ayumu consistently outperformed humans, showing a level of vi

On November 3, 2016, Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi visited Kyoto, a city renowned for its history as well as its vibrant universities. During her stay, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi paid a visit to Kyoto University, where she spent a year as a research student in 1985. | Japan - The Government of Japan