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On behalf of all our staff, I would like to express my sincere affection and gratitude to the family and friends who supported you throughout your journey.  \nToday we are celebrating the completion of 26 Doctoral degrees, 35 Master’s degrees, and 25 Bachelor’s degrees. These totals include many international students: 23 Doctoral, 29 Master’s, and 1 Bachelor’s.  \nDuring your years here at our school, Japan, and the rest of the world, was afflicted by a series of disasters. This year was especially tough, with new measures enforced to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, including a campus-wide entry ban. It was not easy to continue your studies and complete your degrees under these circumstances. Please allow me to express my sincere admiration for all of you who overcame doubts about the progress of your projects and your future, all of you who overcame anxiety about new restrictions on human interaction, and all of you who dedicated yourselves to endless study and kept your research in motion.  \nRight now, we’re living through events that indicate de-globalization like Brexit and the US-China trade war. We’re in the middle of a Fourth Industrial Revolution based on innovations like AI. It has already been pointed out that these events will cause permanent changes in global trade and productions systems, and in how we value society and individuals. There are 2 topics that I would like share with you today, to give you strength as you leave our school, and enter a world that is changing suddenly in unpredictable ways.  \nFirst,“maintaining a habit of inquisitiveness, learning, and thinking.”  \nSome of favorite words of wisdom are from Confucius: “He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” Unless we practice both learning and thinking, we will never be able to apply the things that we have learned. And even worse, we will be held back by our own stubbornness. Learn and contemplate. Learn how to contemplate. This will bring you closer to the truth of matters, and you will also gain a deeper understanding of your own thoughts. I believe that you performed many cycles of “learning and thinking” without conscious effort as you engaged in research within your departments and graduate programs. When you narrowed down your topic, you interpreted the results of your experiments, and those results lead you to a new topic to explore. Please continue to perform this cycle, but with conscious effort, throughout the diverse challenges you will encounter.  \nFurthermore, an inquisitive mind is required to maintain a habit of “learning and thinking.” During this COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen honest reports based on facts, and we have also seen baseless and inflammatory claims. Sadly, it’s no different in the world of research. If you search for COVID-19 in medical paper databases like PubMed, you will see that over 40,000 papers have been published between January and August this year. As far as I know, there have never been this many medical or life  \nscience papers published in a single year. Of course, when you browse these papers, they are perfect examples of sloppy data collection, inadequate peer review, and a general lack of supervision. To be frank, there are a few gems, and a lot of rubbish. There have been many papers that enjoyed media attention, only to be retracted later. There are also scientific papers that appear to be clearly factual, but actually contain serious mistakes. This behavior is not limited to times of crisis. Right now, due to extreme circumstances, the underlying problems have become more obvious. But even in normal times, we need to remain vigilant against a significant amount of false papersand severely biased media reports. 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