{"id":774,"date":"2025-03-24T16:24:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T07:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/?p=774"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T07:27:43","slug":"20250324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/2025\/03\/24\/20250324\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2025 Shigeru Yanaka Condolences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20, Shigeru Yanaka, a SATREPS Malawi Project member, passed away.<br \/>\nI was speechless to receive the sudden news even though I had heard from him that he was recuperating from an illness by email correspondence last year.<br \/>\nStarting at Nagano University, he cooperated as a co-researcher in our projects and also joined our projects at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature and Ehime University.<br \/>\nIn 2022, he joined the research work at Malawi, Yakushima, and Aya. He also accompanied the Malawian researchers at Chizu during their research in Japan.<br \/>\nI have met many different researchers in my long career.<br \/>\nAmong them, he was an extensive, knowledgeable, and multiple-talented professor who was always curious about information and eager to try new things.<br \/>\nI posted one memorial photo at Nagano where we went together for research among the many photos we had taken.<br \/>\nYanaka-sensei, thanks for all that you&#8217;ve done. I have a lot of pleasant memories with you. I am very grateful for you.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-774 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka02-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka02-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka02-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka02-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka02-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka02-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka02.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-775'>\n\t\t\t\tMay 10, 2014\u3000 In Sakurai district, Saku City, Nagano Prefecture\u3000Tasting spring water \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/yanaka.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-776'>\n\t\t\t\tMay 11, 2014\u3000 At St. Cousair, Iizuna-machi, Nagano Prefecture\u3000Perfect smile\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>(Text\/photo by Atsuko Fukushima)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20, Shigeru Yanaka, a SATREPS Malawi Project member, passed away. I was speechless to receive the sudden news even though I had heard from him that he was recuperating from an illness by email correspondence last year. Starting at Nagano University, he cooperated as a co-researcher in our projects and also joined our projects at the Research Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intnrms-malawi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}