The Global Bioconvergence Center of Innovation:
Realization of a sustainable society founded on mental, physical, and environmental health

Healthy Mind

Mental health is a crucial prerequisite for an active and personally fulfilling life. According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, mental health involves numerous factors beyond personal temperament and talents, such as quality of life, and the mind is considered to have a particularly close interrelationship with the body. To preserve and promote mental health, we will use scientific investigation and social implementation methods, for example, research and development of machine learning algorithms, in order to identify the mechanisms of mental illness such as changes in brain dynamics in cases of depression and stress.

Healthy Body

Physical health, much like mental health, is an important prerequisite to everyday life. In addition to daily habits and healthy behaviors, early detection and prevention of disease are indispensable to maintaining physical health, particularly amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, and we expect to see advances in and an integrated approach to the basic science and technology of disease detection and prevention. To preserve and promote physical health, we will foster the development of products and services related to well-being, drug discovery, and diagnosis, for example, by elucidating the cause of aging in living cells, inhibiting aging in the human body, and applying AI robot technology and other methods to multiomics and microbiome analysis.

Healthy Environment

Environmental health is closely related to the health of the human mind and body. Global warming, desertification, deforestation, ecological damage, air pollution, ocean pollution—humanity is witnessing a myriad of environmental issues on a global scale. To preserve and promote environmental health, we will create a virtuous ecosystem cycle based on environmental preservation and utilization through the development of new tourism resources and services, for example, diversity mapping and development of new monitoring systems utilizing AI technology and use of environmental and ecological resources for tourism activities and other purposes.