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• 2025.12.16
  

  Published/論文掲載: Shin Ito, Toshiaki Nishi, Takaaki Nakajima, Yuto Endo, Yuto Sakaguchi, Noriko Tsuruoka, Yoichi Haga, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Influence of textile filament counts on friction between hydrogel and textile-covered rubber sheet in water, Tribology International, 216 (2026) 111567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.triboint.2025.111567

• 2025.11.30
  

  We made three presentations regarding baseball pitching, sensor shoe system, and plantar friction percception at the Sports engineering and Human dynamics 2025 (SHD2025) in Kyoto./日本機械学会スポーツ工学・ヒューマンダイナミクス部門講演会にて，野球のピッチング，センサシューズシステム，足底摩擦知覚に関する3件の発表を行いました．

• 2025.11.27
  

  Prof. Yamaguchi delivered an invited lecture on the sensor-shoe system at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Equilibrium Research./山口教授が，第84回めまい平衡医学会総会・学術講演会にて，センサシューズシステムに関する招待講演を行いました．

• 2025.11.14
  

  Published/論文掲載: Daiki Naito, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Keita Honda, Midori Miyagi, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Nishi, Hide Matsumoto, Yuzuki Nakai, Yoshihiro Sasaki, Jun-ichi Hayasaka, Daiki Haruyama, Koji Watanabe and Satoru Ebihara, Characteristics of ground reaction force during walking in post-stroke patients, Sensors, 25, 22 (2025) 6940. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25226940

• 2025.10.24
  

  Prof. Nishi gave an invited talk at the 5th Czech–Japan Tribology Workshop, held in Luhacovice, Czech Republic./ 西准教授がチェコ共和国ルハチョヴィツェにて行われた第５回チェコー日本トライボロジーワークショップにおいて招待講演を行いました．

• 2025.10.23
  

  Professor Yamaguchi delivered a lecture titled “The Science of Pitching from the Perspective of Friction: The Intimate Relationship Between the Ball and the Fingers” at the Japan Baseball Society Special Seminar./山口教授が，日本野球学会特別セミナーにおいて，「摩擦から見た投球の科学～ボールと指との蜜月関係～」と題して講演を行いました．

• 2025.10.13
  

  We made nine presentations at the Tribology Conference 2025 Autumn in Hakodate./トライボロジー会議2025秋函館で9件の発表を行いました．

• 2025.09.30
  

  Published/論文掲載: Toshiaki Nishi, Kenta Matsui, Rina Ito, Mihoko Kuramochi, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Introduction of a Low-friction Layer inside Sanitary Products Intended to Reduce Friction-induced Skin Irritation, Scientific Reports, 15 (2025) 33361. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-17226-4

• 2025.09.20
  

  Mr. Shoma Kobayashi received the Best  Presentation Award from the Japan Society for Design Engineering/修士2年の小林祥真君が（公社）日本設計工学会東北支部研究発表講演会学生優秀発表賞を受賞しました．

• 2025.08.28
  

  Dr. Akira Komatsu has joined our laboratory as a researcher under the agreement with Sendai National College of Technology./ 小松瞭博士が仙台高等専門学校との協定に基づく協定研究員として研究室メンバーに加わりました

• 2025.07.30
  

  Two poster presentations on research related to baseball pitching and friction were made at the XXX Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB2025) in Stockholm, Sweden. /スウェーデンストックホルムで開催された The XXX Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB2025) にて野球の投球と摩擦に関する研究について2件のポスター発表を行いました．

• 2025.07.30
  

  Published/論文掲載: Takeshi Yamaguchi, Sota Suzuki, Shinnosuke Suzuki, Toshiaki Nishi, Takehiro Fukuda, Daiki Nasu, Effect of finger–ball friction on upper limb movement during fastball pitching in baseball, Scientific Reports, 15 (2025) 27759. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-12298-8.

• 2025.07.16
  

  Prof. Yamaguchi gave a lecture entitled “Fall injuries among older workers – current situation and preventive measures” at the 20th EU-Japan Symposium on Safe and Healthy Working Environments, jointly organised by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and the European Commission./山口教授が，厚生労働省および欧州委員会との共催による「第20回 日EUシンポジウム（テーマ：安全で健康的な労働環境のために）」において，「高年齢労働者の転倒災害　―現状と防止対策―」と題した講演を行いました．

• 2025.07.05
  

  Two poster presentations were made at the ISPGR World Congress 2025 in Maastricht, Netherland. /オランダマーストリヒトで開催されたISPGR World Congress 2025 にて2件のポスター発表を行いました．

• 2025.05.30
  

  Dr. Ishizako and Prof. Nishi presented their research on friction in soft materials at the Japan Tribology Conference 2025 Spring Tokyo./日本トライボロジー会議 2025春東京にて石﨏助教と西准教授がそれぞれソフトマテリアルの摩擦に関する研究発表を行いました．

• 2025.05.27
  

  Dr. Ishizako received the Young Investigator Award from the Japanese Society of Tribologists/石﨏助教が一般社団法人日本トライボロジー学会奨励賞を受賞しました．

• 2025.05.24
  

  Dr. Ishizuka (a third-year doctoral student at the time) received the Student Excellent Presentation Award at the 2024 Autumn Conference of the Japan Society for Design Engineering. Prof. Nishi and Prof. Yamaguchi each received the Award for Outstanding Student Presentation Supervision./石﨏助教（当時D3学生）が公益社団法人日本設計工学会2024年度秋季研究発表講演会学生優秀発表賞を，西准教授，山口教授が学生優秀発表指導教員賞をそれぞれ受賞しました．

• 2025.04.24
  

  Published/論文掲載: Towa Tanada, Noriko Tsuruoka, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro, Yusuke Tsuji, Fumihito Arai, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Nishi, Yoichi Haga, Air-Driven Spiral Scaffold Mechanism for a Group of Microrobots Working Together in the Intestine, Sensors and Actuators: A. Physical, 390 (2025) 116557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2025.116557

• 2025.04.07
  

  Dr. Arata Ishiwa has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in our laboratory as of April 1, 2025./石﨏新太先生が2025年4月1日付で当分野の助教に着任されました．

• 2025.03.27
  

  Published/論文掲載: Takeshi Yamaguchi, Souta Suzuki, Shinnosuke Suzuki, Toshiaki Nishi, Takehiro Fukuda, Daiki Nasu, Impact of slip distance between fingertips and ball on baseball pitching performance under different friction conditions, Scientific Reports 15 (2025) 9514. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-93632-y.