J-PARC News - September 2017 (Issue #149) 

• Signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding with RaDIATE for participation in international joint research projects (September 20, J-PARC)
• The correlation of hydration state and molecule structure factors of biocompatible polymer materials revealed (August 29, press release) - A prospect for an innovative improvement to medical polymer material's performance -
• The whole picture of unique magnetic excitations that arise from the synergy between frustration and quantum effects was observed by neutron scattering (September 8, press conference) - Presented the guidelines for a new theory of magnetism -
• 10th International Workshop NBI2017/4th RaDIATE Collaboration Meeting (September 18-22, Tokai-village Industry and Information Plaza "iVil")
• Separate nuclear wastes to recycle in nuclear reactor with accelerator: group partitioning and nuclear transmutation technology utilizing ADS
• 8th J-PARC Hello Science "Naminaminaranu wave power ~ Let's do lots of experiments today!~" (August 25, Tokai-village Industry and Information Plaza "iVil")
• On the experiment facilities (summer maintenance)

J-PARC News - August 2017 (Issue #148) 

• "CP (Charge-Parity) symmetry violation" of neutrinos; growing possibility (August 4th, press conference)
• A path for a solar cell design using a new semiconductor (August 10th, press conference)
• First in the world! Successfully obtaining highly accurate atomic images of materials for the first time, including a very small amount of light elements, using a white neutron beam. (August 19, press conference)
• 14th Annual Meeting of the Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (August 1 to 3, Hokkaido University)
• J-PARC open house 2017 (August 20, J-PARC)
• 7th J-PARC Hello Science "A story of a superconductivity: an advanced technology supporting stupendous scientific experiments" (July 28, Tokai-village Industry and Information Plaza "iVil")
• J-PARC Center outreach activities
• Summer break science lab "Nothing is there, but something is there! The science of vacuum" (July 31, August 9 and 28, Tokai-village Industry and Information Plaza "iVil")
• FY 2017 "Children's Tour Day in Kasumigaseki" (August 2 to 3, the former building of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT))
• "Let's make a kaleidoscope of light!" (August 5, Oarai Waku-Waku Science Museum)

J-PARC News - Jury 2017 (Issue #147) 

• J-PARC Center and a research facility in Sweden signed a memorandum of cooperation (July 9, Sweden)
• Solved 200-year-mystery: determined the structure of the smallest building block of glass (silica). (July 27, press release)
  - A prospect for a highly functional and advanced silicic acid material creation using orthosilicic acid -
• FY2017 Meeting to Report on Industrial Use of J-PARC/MLF (July 20-21, Akihabara Convention Hall)
• 3rd Liaison Meeting on Safety and Health for Contractors of J-PARC (July 7th, Ibaraki Quantum Beam Research Center)
• J-PARC participated in the Geo Space Adventure (GSA) 2017 exhibit (July 15-16, Kamioka town, Hida city, in Gifu)
• 6th J-PARC Hello Science "Naminaminaranu wave power (extraordinary power of waves) -from water waves to particle physics and to the universe-" (June 30, Tokai-village Industry and Information Plaza "iVil")
• J-PARC Hello Science/Scientific experiment class in Tokai-village Shirakata Elementary School (July 6th, Tokai-village)

J-PARC News - Jury 2017 (Issue #146) 

• Electron: Rotation wobble will cause irregularity in the Orbital - Correlation between electron spin wobble and electron orbital was revealed- (June 19, press release)
• Mr. Ikuji Ikeda, president and CEO of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, LTD, visited J-PARC (June 12, J-PARC)
• Research Collaboration Meeting between SNS and J-PARC on spallation neutron source (June 6-9, J-PARC research building etc.)
• Success in its first acceptance of neutron beam by POLANO spectrometer (June 9, J-PARC)
• Inspection of the Hadron Experimental Facility was implemented (May 31, J-PARC)
• Ibaraki University "KEK Day - Tour of Quantum Beam Science by Most Advanced Accelerator - " (June 7, J-PARC)
• The 5^th J-PARC Hello Science "Reduce Wastes from Nuclear Power Plant with the use of Accelerator - Partitioning and Transmutation Technology for Spent Nuclear Fuel- " (May 26, Tokai Industry and Information Plaza "iVill")
• J-PARC Hello Science Experimental Session at Nakamaru Elementary School (June 21, Tokai village)
• The 14^th Muon g-2/EDM Collaboration Meeting (June 7-9, J-PARC Research building, etc.)

J-PARC News - May 2017 (Issue #145) 

• J-PARC "Safety Day": Workshop 5.23 for Fostering Safety Culture (May 25) "Safety is Disney Resort's Priority", a speech by Hidemi Ishizaka
• Information exchange meeting for the JAEA and SCK·CEN cooperation to develop accelerator-driven systems (May 17-18, J-PARC research building etc.)
• Participated in the Interactions.org meeting for promoting communications between particle physics laboratories (May11-12, Holland)
• J-PARC gives its first round-table conference with press (April 27, J-PARC)
• J-PARC Hello Science "Neutrino Solves the Ultimate Cosmic Mystery" (Tokai Industry and Information Plaza (iVil), April 28)
• Painting Trial Class on Japanese Mask（May 26^th, KEK Tokai Dormitory）
• J-PARC open facility will be on Sunday August 20th 2017!

J-PARC News - April 2017 (Issue #144) 

• Commendation for Science and Technology for the FY 2017 announced by the MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) : prize in Science and Technology
  - Advanced tire development completed by Sumitomo Rubber Industries, LTD., in liaison with the SPring-8 (Large-Scale Synchrotron Radiation Facility), J-PARC, and K Computer (supercomputer) facilities -
• The 49th Atomic Energy Society of Japan Award winner was announced (March 28th, Tokai University Shonan campus).
  - Paper on the development of a bubble generator for the reduction of pressure waves at the mercury target -
• Hiraishi and Okabe awarded the Encouragement Prizes of FY 2017 by the Society of Muon and Meson Science of Japan (March 19, Japanese Society for Neutron Science).
• Development of an analysis method for crystal structures of new materials, using mathematical graph analysis (April 20th, press conference)
• T2K to finish experiment Run8, achieving a total proton irradiation of 2.25 × 10²¹.
• The 22nd International Collaboration on Advanced Neutron Sources "ICANS XXII" (March 27-31, Oxford, United Kingdom)
• J-PARC Workshop : "Neutron Biology for Next Generation" (March 22, IQBRC)
• The 58th Science and Technology Week with "Beauty" of science and technology panel exhibition (April 17-28, Tokyo)
• J-PARC "Hello Science" in Nishitokyo City (March 29, Nishitokyo City)

J-PARC News - February 2017 (Issue #143)

• The J-PARC's former Deputy Director, Koichiro Nishikawa was informally selected as a 2016 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize winner.
• The 22nd Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan for the discovery of new type of nuclei "xi hypernuclei"
• Formation of Novel substance: one metal atom containing as many as 9 hydrogen atoms. (March 14, press conference)
• The world's first successful synthesis of perovskite oxide PbCoO₃ and discovery of new charge distribution - high hopes for functional oxide development - (March 21, press conference)
• J-PARC International Advisory Committee (IAC2017) was held (February 20-28, J-PARC research building, etc.).
• J-PARC Center Kyoto University Branch was established (February 22, J-PARC).
• FY 2016 Quantum Beam Science Festa /8th MLF Symposium / 34th PF Symposium was held (March 14-15, Tsukuba International Congress Center).
• J-PARC Hello Science "What is an accelerator?" (February 27, AEON Tokai store)
• J-PARC Hello Science in Muramatsu Elementary School (March 1, Tokai-village)

J-PARC News - February 2017 (Issue #142)

• 4th Accelerator Facility Safety Symposium (January 26-27, Ibaraki Quantum Beam Research Center (IQBRC))
• Study Meeting on Diagnosis Systems for Trouble and Presage (January 25, J-PARC)
• The 19th CROSSroads Workshop Series - Neutrons and Muons for Interface Investigation- (February 13, IQBRC)
• Held 23rd J-PARC PAC (January 11-13, J-PARC)
• Exhibited Booth at American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (February 16-20, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.)
• Held Flower Arrangement Class (January 23, Advanced Science Research Center, Nuclear Science Research Institute)
• Workshop for Making Keychains with Chirimen Cloth (February 10, KEK Tokai Dormitory)
• J-PARC Visit by Minerva 21 (February 21)
• Facility Situation

J-PARC News - January 2017 (Issue #141)

• Message for 2017, From Naohito Saito, Director of the J-PARC Center Greetings Upon Issuing the First J-PARC NEWS of the New Year
• Discovery of a Positive Electrode Material to Help Realize Higher Capacity Lithium Ion Batteries (December 23, Press Release) - Realization of Next-Generation Storage Batteries Expected to Have Effects Such as Boosting Performance of Electric Vehicles -
• Closing in on the Mystery of Light Elements in the Core During the Earth's Formation - In Situ Observation Using Neutrons of Hydrogen Dissolution into Iron - (January 13, Press Release)
• Held 23rd J-PARC PAC (January 11-13, J-PARC)
• Held KEK Public Lecture "The Origin and History of Matter as Revealed by J-PARC" (December 10, KEK Tsukuba)
• The 37th REIMEI Workshop on Frontiers of Correlated Quantum Matters and　Spintronics (January 13-17, Tokai-mura Industry and Information Plaza "iVil" and other sites)
• J-PARC Hello Science "Chocolate Science" (January 21, Aeon Tokai)
• Winners of the J-PARC FY2016 Photo Contest (December 20, J-PARC)