Yasuhiko Arakawa an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo and in 1993, was promoted Full Professor there. He is now at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo and is also the Director of Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics. He has been a visiting scientist of the California Institute of Technology in the period 1984-1986 and visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich in the period 2009-2011. He is a member of Science Council of Japan since 2009. Yasuhiko Arakawa Yasuhiko Arakawa (Japanese , "Arakawa Yasuhiko"; born 6 November 1952) is a Japanese physicist. His research focuses
Shizuka Arakawa second-place Cohen (183.36). Like Cohen, Slutskaya made mistakes in her long program, and ended up taking bronze, leaving Arakawa as the gold medal winner, which was also Japan's only medal of the 2006 games. Slutskaya was third at 181.44. At age 24, Arakawa became the oldest women's Olympic skating champion in more than 80 years. Florence "Madge" Cave Syers from the United Kingdom was the oldest when she won the Olympic title at age 27 at the 1908 Summer Olympics, which featured the first Olympic figure skating events. After winning her Olympic title, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called Arakawa