Japan
Approved Names
Details National Campaign
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Contacts​
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IAU National Outreach Coordinator (NOC)
Hitoshi Yamaoka
Contact e-mail: hitoshi.yamaoka@nao.ac.jp
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Name ExoWorlds National Committee
Hitoshi Yamaoka (committee coordinator, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Sadaharu Oh (former professional baseball player, asteroid named (61189) Ohsadaharu)
Yoko Ogawa (Novelist, "The Housekeeper and the Professor)
KAGAYA (astro photographer, amateur astronomer)
Hideo Shinohara (Saitama Soka East High School Teacher)
Mariko Takahashi (science journalist, Asahi Shimbun)
Keiko Takemiya (Manga artist, “Toward the Terra”)
Takeshi Yasuda (Himeji Science Museum Planetarium)
Naoko Yamazaki (former JAXA astronaut)
Makoto Yoshikawa (astronomer, “Hayabusa 2”)
Jun'ichi Watanabe (astronomer, Vice President of IAU)
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Website: https://prc.nao.ac.jp/iau/exoworlds2019/
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