SPIE in Yokohama, Japan

This year’s SPIE conference was held in Yokohama, Japan. I gave a poster presentation about the initial operations of Soft X-ray Imager onboard XRISM. I met a lot of people working on detectors, optics, and satellite missions. In the field of the high energy astrophysics, latest attracting topics seem to include the China’s rapid growth and the next US Probe mission (…and XRISM !). I am always surprised by the order-of-magnitude discrepancy in budgets. We have to think about what Japan really should do in the next 10 years.