PJA Ser. B Reviews by Discipline

Review Series to Celebrate Our 100th Volume

• Pursuing the identity of a natural medicine licorice by Dr. Shoji Shibata that he firstly investigated half a century before
  Michiho ITO
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 101, No. 5, 239-248 (2025) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Structural determination of mugineic acid, an iron(III)-chelating substance secreted from graminaceous plants for efficient iron uptake
  Takanori KOBAYASHI and Naoko K.NISHIZAWA
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 101, No. 2, 55-67 (2025) [Abstract and Full Text]
• First English article of Yagi-Uda antenna: On the 100th anniversary of birth of Yagi-Uda antenna
  Qiang CHEN
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 101, No. 1, 1-7 (2025) [Abstract and Full Text]
• The first artificial cancer in the internal organs of experimental animals
  Takao SEKIYA
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 10, 558-578 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• First report on a series of food-derived mutagenic and carcinogenic heterocyclic amines
  Yukari TOTSUKA, Masako OCHIAI and Keiji WAKABAYASHI
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 10, 545-557 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Report on the mutagenicity of flavone derivatives and their contribution to advancing scientific knowledge
  Yukari TOTSUKA and Keiji WAKABAYASHI
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 10, 537-544 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• The spontaneous-diabetes rat: a model of noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus by Yoshio Goto and Masaei Kakizaki (1981)
  Hiroo IMURA
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 9, 500-507 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Motonori Matuyama and reversals of geomagnetic field
  Masaru KONO
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 9, 491-499 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Tracing the genealogy of research on the mechanism of blue flower coloration by anthocyanin based on Keita Shibata’s work
  Kumi YOSHIDA
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 8, 446-464 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Crystals of taka-amylase A, a cornerstone of protein chemistry in Japan
  Saburo AIMOTO, Naoto MINAMINO, Takeshi ISHIMIZU and Masami KUSUNOKI
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 8, 429-445 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Calmodulin: a highly conserved and ubiquitous Ca²⁺ sensor
  Kenji SOBUE
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 7, 368-386 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• The discovery of acatalasemia (lack of catalase in the blood) and its significance in human genetics
  Mizuo ANDO, Kunihiro FUKUSHIMA and Kazunori NISHIZAKI
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 7, 353-367 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Studies on “Ascites sarcoma”
  Tomoyuki KITAGAWA
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 6, 309-319 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Invention of the split-anode magnetron
  Hidenori MIMURA
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 5, 281-292 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Isolation and grouping of RNA phages by Itaru Watanabe et al. (1967)
  Fumio ARISAKA
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 4, 253-263 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Kawai-type multianvil ultrahigh-pressure technology
  Tetsuo IRIFUNE
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 3, 149-164 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Discovery of internal rotation and conformers of 1,2-dichloroethane: the dawn of the concept of conformation
  Shinji TOYOTA
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 2, 101-113 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Kimura’s contributions on Earth polar motion studies
  Masanori IYE
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 1, 15-31 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Cloning of human Type I interferon cDNAs
  Shigekazu NAGATA
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 100, No. 1, 1-14 (2024) [Abstract and Full Text]
• At the dawn of novel aromatics: “On the Synthesis of Hinokitiol” by Tetsuo Nozoe et al.
  Hiroyuki ISOBE
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 99, No. 10, 427-437 (2023) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Glancing at the birth of a galaxy of scientists from Rikō Majima
  Hiroyuki ISOBE and Masahiro HIRAMA
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 99, No. 9, 335-351 (2023) [Abstract and Full Text]
• Proceedings of the Japan Academy—History, database, and trend—
  Masanori IYE
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 99, No. 8, 228-240 (2023) [Abstract and Full Text]
• On the occasion of the 100th volume of the Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B (PJA-B)
  Kunihiko SUZUKI and Shigekazu NAGATA
  
• Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B, Vol. 99, No. 8, 227 (2023) [Abstract and Full Text]