{"id":82225,"date":"2025-09-29T17:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/?p=82225"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:47:47","slug":"professor-michio-kondo-of-the-research-strategy-center-receives-the-thomas-a-edison-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/news-en\/82225","title":{"rendered":"Professor Michio Kondo of the Research Strategy Center Receives the &#8220;Thomas A. Edison Award&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Michio Kondo of Center for Research Strategy received the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iec.ch\/awards\">Thomas A. Edison Award<\/a> at the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) General Meeting held in Delhi, India.<br \/>\nThe Thomas A. Edison Award is a highly prestigious honor bestowed upon individuals within the IEC who have held positions such as International Chairman or International Secretary, and have made significant achievements and contributions to the operation of technical committees and certification systems.<br \/>\nProfessor Kondo received the award in high recognition of his long-standing leadership in the development and deliberation of international standards as the Chairman of the IEC Technical Committee &#8220;TC 82: Solar photovoltaic energy systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_82219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-82219 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e7f97374-92b8-428c-b517-07993890800e-2-610x813.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e7f97374-92b8-428c-b517-07993890800e-2-610x813.jpeg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e7f97374-92b8-428c-b517-07993890800e-2-940x1253.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e7f97374-92b8-428c-b517-07993890800e-2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e7f97374-92b8-428c-b517-07993890800e-2-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e7f97374-92b8-428c-b517-07993890800e-2.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Michio Kondo with IEC Vice-President \/ SMB Chairman, Mr.Vimal Mahendru. (At the IEC General Meeting in Delhi, India)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Michio Kondo of Center for Research Strategy received the Thomas A. Edison Award at the IEC (Interna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[73,179],"class_list":["post-82225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-general-en","tag-research-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82232,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82225\/revisions\/82232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}