Tokyo Institute of Technology（Tokyo Tech）
Tokyo Institute of Technology （Tokyo Tech） is the leading scienceand technology university established May 1881, in Japan. Tokyo
Tech’s longstanding tradition of Monotsukuri or technical ingenuity
bears witness to the Institute’s innovative spirit.
Composition and Organization
Schools (6)
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ScienceEngineering
Materials and Chemical Technology
ComputingLife Science and Technology
Environment and Society

Institute of Innovative Research••••Institute for Liberal Arts
Overseas Offices(4)••••ThailandPhilippines
ChinaEgypt•••

Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary
Research of Science and Technology(FIRST)
Laboratory for Materials and Structures(MSL)
Laboratory for Chemistry and LifeScience(CLS)Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear
Energy(LANE)
International Research Center of Advanced
Energy Systems for Sustainability
Advanced Research Center for Social
Information Science and Technology
Research Units（As of May 1,2016）

Enrollments

4780(211)

Regular Student（Undergraduate）
Master's3607(419)

Doctoral1445(441)

Regular Students（Graduate）
Research Students

123(64)

Note: The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of international students

TopicsContact
2‐12‐1 Ookayama, Meguro‐ku, Tokyo Japan
http://www.titech.ac.jp/english/index.html
kensan@jim.titech.ac.jp

Academic and Administrative Staff（As of May 1,2016）

Professors

378

Administrative Staff

486

Associate Professors

349

Technical Staff

124

Lecturers

17

Medical Staff

3

Assistant Professors

327

Total

Research Associate8Total

613

1079

Tokyo Tech President, Yoshinao Mishima has been leading internationalization through education and research, to become oneof the world's top 10 research universities by 2030.
Institute of Innovative Research (IIR)
The Institute of Innovative Research (IIR) was established in 2016 with the mission of creating novel research fields, finding
solutions to problems in human society, and contributing to future industrial infrastructures. IIR consists of four ResearchLaboratories, two Research Centers, and ten Research Units located at the Suzukakedai and Ookayama campuses with more than
150 researchers in total. IIR aims not only to tackle common research projects through organic collaboration among theseresearch bodies but also to produce novel research outcomes which lead to new technological innovations.
International Network
Tokyo Tech admits international students from 79 countries and regions, and has university‐wide academic cooperationagreements with 107 institutions in 29 countries and regions• Global Scientists and Engineers Course: This program aims to foster scientists and engineers withglobal collaboration skills necessary to solve pressing issues relating to population change, energy, andthe environment, while maintaining specialized knowledge and expertise.
• Inter‐University Exchange Project: With the aim of promoting international educational exchange andcultivating world‐class leaders, Tokyo Tech’s three collaborative programs (with China and Korea,
Global Scientists andTurkey, and Russia) have been selected to receive support from Japan’s MEXT.
Engineers Course

Our target
Since his appointment as Tokyo Tech President in October 2012, Professor Mishima has been leading Tokyo Tech’s educationalreforms and spearheading international networks leads to the expansion of international exchanges in both education andresearch and contributes to the creation of globally competitive engineers with the scientific and technological Know‐how,communication skills and international awareness to lead global research efforts and contribute to the solutions to world’s mosturgent problems. Under President Mishima’s leadership Tokyo Tech seeks to continue as a leading research university in Japanand become one of the top ten leading research universities in the world.

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Research Highlights

http://www.titech.ac.jp/english/research/strengths/highlights.html

Discovery of a Superconductive Material that Defies
Conventional Wisdom

Research Center and Director of the Materials Research Center for
Element Strategy defied conventional wisdom when Professor Hosono
discovered an iron-based high-temperature superconductor in 2008. His
paper has been cited more than 5000 times by scientists around the world.

Researching the Most Basic of Cell Functions: Autophagy

Autophagy is involved in various physiological functions such as inhibiting
the growth of cancer cells and slowing down the aging process. Honorary
Professor Ohsumi was the first person in the world to confirm autophagy
with the naked eye. In 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize inPhysiology or Medicine.

Powering the future with low‐cost, high‐performance all‐solid‐state batteries

Toward low-cost, high-performance all-solid-state batteries Professor
Ryoji Kanno has devised a low-cost approach to developing all-solidstate batteries, improving prospects for scaling up the technology forwidespread use in electric vehicles, communications and other industrialapplications.Compared to common lithium-ion batteries that containlithium ion conducting liquids, all-solid-state batteries of the future
promise a suite of advantages: improved safety and reliability, higher
energy storage and longer life cycles.The discovery of ‘superionic’
conductors — solid crystals that enable fast movement of ions — isspurring the development of such dream batteries.

TSUBAME –The world’s most energy‐efficient supercomputer

TSUBAME is the designation for a series of high-performancesupercomputers developed by Professor Matsuoka and the Global
Scientific Information and Computing Center to support advanced
research and education at Tokyo Tech. TSUBAME 3.0, which offers evengreater performance enhancements, has started to operate in August
2017, continuing the evolution of TSUBAME. It ranks 1st in the Green500
list (Ranking of the most energy efficient supercomputers).

Solving the Mystery of the Earth and Life at the Earth‐Life
Science Institute (ELSI)ELSI was established in 2012 through the MEXT‘s World PremierInternational Research Center Initiatives (WPI) program with the aim of
becoming a globally competitive center to elucidate some of the mostfundamental mysteries faced by humanity: how the Earth was formed andhow its early environment allowed for the rise of initial life and its
subsequent evolution to complex forms of life.

Research Strengths
Major Awards

World Rankings by Subject/Faculty•••••

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine(Yoshinori Ohsumi)Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates(Hideo Hosono)Nobel Prize in Chemistry(Hideki Shirakawa)
Order of Culture, Japan Prize(Yasuharu Suematsu)
Benjamin Franklin Medaletc.
(Kenichi Iga)

Collabotration with Industry
Organization
Alliances

Tokyo Tech
Launched Venture
Companies

SponsoredFunds