Taniguchi Yū

Senior researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies. Completed graduate studies in medicine at Akita University in 2012. Became a researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology in 2012. Was a guest researcher at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Medicine in 2014. Has been a senior researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies since 2019. Won the Gerontological Society of America Person-in-Training Award in 2011, the Japan Foundation for Aging and Health Science Award in 2018, and the Geriatrics & Gerontology International Best Article Award in 2020. Focuses on primary prevention of dementia while also engaging in prenatal cohort studies and life course research targeting healthy longevity. Writings include Tatta 5 senchi hohaba o hirogeru dake de genki ni nagaiki dekiru! (A Healthy Long Life by Increasing Your Stride Just 5 Centimeters!) and Ninchishō no hajimari wa hohaba de wakaru: Chokochoko aruki wa kiken shingō (Identifying Dementia’s Onset by Stride Length).