Hiromitsu Miyata

We held the initial graduate seminar for the 2026 Spring Semester.

We held oral & poster presentations at the 16th Asian Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences (ACP2026).

Arisa Yokosu has been awarded the Azusa Ono Memorial Academic Award for the 2025 Academic Year.

We held a graduation ceremony of the Contemporary Human Studies for the 2025 Academic Year.

Graduation ceremony of the Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Scicnes for the 2026 Academic Year was held.

We made 4 poster presentations at the 16th Society for Tokyo Young Psychologists.

We have opened the registration for the 1st Forum, Japanese Association of Soma.

Outline for the 1st Forum of the Japanese Association of Soma.

Seminar on Mind and Body for the 2025 Spring Semester has concluded.

We held a welcome party of the Mind-Body Seminar for the 2025 Academic Year.

We conducted practical icebreaking sessinos on mindfulness in our undergraduate mind-body seminar.

We have launched our undergraduate Mind-Body Seminar for the 2025 Spring Semester.

We have started the graduate research seminar for the 2025 Spring Semester.

We held a farewell party of graduating Master's students for the 2024 Academic Year.

We held a graduation ceremony of the Contemporary Human Studies, School of Culture, Media and Society, for the 2024 Academic Year.

Graduation ceremony of the Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Scicnes for the 2024 Academic Year was held.

We held a farewell party of faculties at Contemporary Human Studies.

Professor Miyata gave a lecture at the Self-Consciousness Research Society

We made three poster presentations at the 15th STYP (Society for Tokyo Young Psychologists)

At the faculty' meeting and gathering of the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

A poster by Arisa Yokosu has been awarded the Excellent Poster Award at the 13th Annual Conference on Japan Emotionology Society

We made three presentations at the 13th Annual Conference of the Japan Emotionology Society

Mr. Ryuzo Kijima from La Salle High School was selected as the Best Presenter at the 88th Annual Conference of the Japanese Psychological Association's "Undergraduate and High School Student Presentation Battle"

We made three poster presentations at the 11th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association of Mindfulness

We made two poster presentations at 27th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

We held a welcome party for our undergraduate seminar, 2024 Academic Year.

We held practical sessions on mindfulness, i.e., apple juice exercise and mindful listening, within our undergraduate seminar.

Graduate Research Sminar for the Spring Semester, 2024 Academic Year, has started.

We held a first undergraduate mind-body seminar for the Spring Semester, 2024 Academic Year.

We held a farewell party for the Miyata Laboratory.

Kaho Yamasaki has been awarded the Azusa Ono Memorial Academic Award for the 2023 Academic Year.

Kaho Yamasaki became the vice-representative of graduating students of the School of Culture, Media and Society, Waseda University, for the 2023 Academic Year.

Graduation ceremony of Contemporary Human Studies, School of Culture, Media and Society for the 2023 Academic Year was held.

Graduation ceremony of the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences for the 2023 Academic Year was held.

Arisa Yokosu, Toru Takamatsu, Hiromitsu Miyata, and Shoko Hosobuchi made poster presentations at the 14th 14th Society for Tokyo Young Psychologists.

We published a researh article that examined effects of TMD mantra to alleviate bruxisum in association with mindfulness.

Mr. Takaomi Matsuo, a professional singer-songwriter, visited Professor Miyata's seminar to give musical performance.

Professor Hiromitsu Miyata participated in a Christmas concert hosted by music therapist Ms. Kiyoko Maeda.

The poster by Chaeeun Noh and Hiromitsu Miyata won an Excellent Research Reward at the 10th annual meeting of Japanese Association of Mindfulness.

Chen Jieyin, Chaeeun Noh, and Hiromitsu Miyata presented posters at the 10th annual meeting of the Japanese Association of Mindfulness.

We held a goodbye party for Francesco Saldarini.

Professor Hiromitsu Miyata made a poster presentation at the 36th annual meeting of the Japanese Association of Health Psychology.

We tasted the organically grown apples from Natsubori Farm in our laboratory.

Professor Hiromitsu Miyata gave a talk at the 11th Japanese Laughter Yoga Association.

953 students are taking my fully on-demand lecture in the fall semester of 2023.

Research Seminar for the 2023 Fall Semester has started.

Undergraduate seminar for the 2023 Fall Semester has started.

We held a whole-day mid-term presentation sessions for the 2023 undergraduate seminar.

Somatic Waseda Forum 2023 has concluded successfully.

Professor Hiromitsu Miyata presented a poster at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychological Associtation.

A formal notice on Somatic Waseda Forum 2023, held on September 24th, 2023.

A research article on the psychological impacts of laughter yoga has been published in the Japanese Journal of Laughter and Humor Research.

We will hold Somatic Waseda Forum 2023 at Toayama Campus.

Classes for the Spring Semester, 2023 academic year, have concluded.

We held an end-of-semester reception party at the Japanese restaurant "Mikawaya," Mejiro.

Research Seminar for the 2023 Spring Semester was concluded.

Professor Miyata was featured in Waseda University's PR magazine, CAMPUS NOW.

Mr. Sachihiko Serizawa gave a special lecture on "Constructive Living" in our class.

Practical sessions on "laughter yoga" are being run in the undergraduate advanced seminar.

Mr. Satoshi Hasegawa gave a special practical session on bodywork in our undergraduate seminar.

A research article on mindfulness and psychological health in Japanese working adults during the COVID-19 pandemic has been published in IJERPH.

We held practical contemplative sessions in our undergraduate seminar.

We held a welcome party for the undergraduate seminar.*

Undergraduate Mind-Body seminar for the Spring Semester, 2023 Academic Year, has started.

Research Seminar for the 2023 Spring Semester has started.

We held a farewell and welcome party of the lab members.

Graduation ceremony of the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences was held.

Graduation cremony of Contemporary Human Studies, School of Culture, Media and Society, was held.

Hiromitsu Miyata gave a talk as a facilitator at the Spring Somatic Dialogue 2023, hosted by the Japan Association of Somatics & Somatic Psychology

Francesco Saldarini and co-presenters won the Excellent Presentation Award at the 13th Society for Tokyo Young Psychologists.

Kaho Yamasaki, Arisa Yokosu, Francesco Saldarini, and Hiromitsu Miyata presented posters at the 13th Society for Tokyo Young Psychologists.

Hiromitsu Miyata and Daisuke Kobayashi presented posters at the 9th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association of Mindfulness.

Francesco Saldarini has arrived at Waseda as a Visiting Research Fellow.

Research Seminars for the Fall Semester have finished.

A study conducted at Miyata Lab. wins a Best Poster Award at the 8th Annual Meeting, Japanese Association of Mindfulness.

Our crowd-funding project has successfully finished.

Our crowd-funding project (from Nov. 1st to Dec. 15th) is starging.

Research seminar for the fall semester has started.

We organized a Regular Symposium and made poster presentations at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychological Association.

We have updated introduction of our research.

We are preparing for a crowd-funding project.

Research Seminar for the spring semester has been over.

A research article on mindfulness in Japanese university students during COVID-19 pandemic has been open online.

A research article by Luisa Zeilhofer on meditation during a university German class has been open.

A research article on meditation before meals has been pulished online in Japanese Journal of Mindfulness.

Research Seminar for the Master's Course has started.

Undergraduate semiar for the 2022 Academic Year has started.

Webiste of Miyata Laboratory has been open to the public.

Graduation Ceremony of Contemporary Human Studies, School of Culture, Media and Society, for the 2021 Academic Year was held.

Ayaka Sampei became the representative of graduating students of the School of Culture, Media and Society, Waseda University, for the 2021 Academic Year.

Kobayashi, Yamasaki, and Miyata presented posters at the 12th Society for Tokyo Young Psychologists.

We have started to construct the website of Miyata's Mind-Body Laboratory.

We made a visit to Besli Clinic.

A second final presentation of the seminar/group thesis was held.

A final presentation of the seminar thesis was held.

Kaho Yamasaki wins a Best Presenter Award at the 85th Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association.

The 8th Memorial Meeting of the Japan Association of Somatics & Somatic Psychology was held.