Nakasone Peace Institute (NPI) was founded in June 1988 by former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone for research and study, international exchange, and other activities conducive to examining critical issues facing the world and Japan.
Research Institutes
Research Institutes
IISEC was established in 2004 as a graduate school specializing in information security, and ever since then, it is devoted to advanced education and research under the slogan, “systemizing a new study field and fostering specialists.” The curriculum is structured in cryptography, network system…
Hitachi's Global Center for Social Innovation is an interdisciplinary research group consisting of engineers, designers and psychologists. The goal is to identify social challenges and develop visions and scenarios for the future. Through a collaborative creation, Hitachi brings thinkers…
The RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) was founded in 2016 as a research center for the MEXT-AIP Project. There are 3 main research groups:
1) Generic Technology Research Group
2) Goal-Oriented Technology Research Group
3) Artificial Intelligence in Society…
NIMS is Japan's sole National Research and Development Agency specializing in materials science.
NIMS promotes research that is at the leading edge of the world’s materials science and has covered materials encompassing not only metals or ceramics but also organic materials and…
NIED (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience) aims to protect people's lives and properties from natural disasters and to prepare society to be resilient to natural disasters, through research on disasters caused by earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, landslides,…
The mission of CiRA (Center for iPS Cell Research and Application) is to research and develop medical applications (personalized medicine) based on iPS cells.
CiRA was founded as a part of the Institute for integrated Cell-Material Science (iCeMS) at the Kyoto University in 2008 and…