Inter- U nive rsit y Re se a rc h
Insti tu te C o rpo rat ion

Research Organization ofInformation and Systems
2017 / 2018

National Institute of Polar Research
National Institute of Informatics
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
National Institute of Genetics
Joint Support-Center for Data Science ResearchPioneering Research Frontiers in the Data Age
to Solve Modern Society Problems
President’ s Message
Today, big data and creative use of it hold the key toinnovations as it provides new lenses through which to look at
our society. The ROIS has worked to build a strong foundation
for data and analytics by promoting collaborations among
Japanese universities. As an organization that has been on theforefront of “data science” from day one, I believe the
Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) willplay an increasingly important role within the researchcommunity in solving the world’ s problems.
We intend to become a main resource for data science foruniversities through our eﬀorts in the following areas:• Consolidating and sorting data that are useful to society as
well as research universities• Revolutionizing methodologies for gleaning meaningfulknowledge from big data
• Developing real-time technologies for aggregating andprocessing a large volume of scattered data
• Developing visualization technologies to help people grasp
astronomical amount of high-dimensional data
The ROIS opened in 2004 as an inter-university research
institute, which is a system unique to Japan. Serving as theumbrella institution for four other inter-university
organizations that came together to form the ROIS, we are
well-positioned to leverage the expansive network of expertiseto promote open science and exploration of new researchareas among all national and private universities in Japan.
In 2016, the ROIS created the Oﬃce of Strategic Planning tostrengthen alliances between the ROIS and the research
institutes that it oversees. The ROIS has also founded the
Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research to boost
partnerships among academic and other types oforganizations. The Center works to promote the use andanalysis of data in all ﬁelds and provides fellowship
opportunities for all those interested in joint research
projects.

At the ROIS, we aredetermined to do ourbest to advance data
science that can beapplied to tackle issues facing modern society. As we take on
the 21st Century challenge, it is critical for us to ensure a free
ﬂow of ideas and knowledge. For this reason, we intend toencourage Japanese universities and research institutions topursue collaborative relationships with their counterparts fromaround the world, as well.
At the ROIS, we are committed to serving as the hub ofresearch related to information and systems in Japan. We hope
you will join us in our eﬀort to advance data science throughthe power of academic partnership.
Sincerely,

Ryoichi Fujii
President of Research Organization ofInformation and Systems

About Inter-University Research InstituteResearch Hub for Academic Institutions

An inter-university research institute helps promote researchcollaborations and resource sharing among universities across Japan. It
provides universities with access to cutting-edge equipment, voluminous
academic data and hard-to-ﬁnd research materials that would be diﬃcult
for them to obtain and maintain individually. It also oﬀers them support
for analysis of such data.

The four research institutes that comprise the Research Organizationof Information and Systems have researchers- in-residence fromrespective ﬁelds from various national and private universities inJapan. A total of 2,951 researchers from 764 institutions participatedin the residency programs during 2016.

Universities

AﬃliateResearchCenters

Inter-University ResearchInstitute Corporations
Shared Use
Joint Research

Postgraduate
Education
Fostering Researcherswith Specialized
Academic
Knowledge
Departments

NIHU
NINS
KEK
ROIS

Joint Research

ResearchCenters2

In these productive
research environments, the ROIS andthe four research
institutes strive tofoster the next
generations of data
scientists at Sokendai,for which they serve
as some of the coreo p e r a ti n g o r g a n i zations.

Private ResearchInstitutions
Corporate ResearchInstitutions
Overseas Universities andResearch Institutions
National ResearchInstitutions including
National Research andDevelopment Agency

Number of Institutions and Joint Researchers Enrolled inInter-University Joint Research Projects, FY2016
Breakdown of organizations to which joint researchers belong
Number of
Institutions

NIPR
NII
ISM
NIG
DS
Total

190
139
327
97
11
764

Total

InterNational University
PublicPrivatePublicPrivateForeign
Universities Research Universities Universities Institutions Institutions Organizations Others
Institutes

1,122 442
418
240
1,003 433
395
217
13
6
2,951 1,338

3
15
20
6
4
48

88
19
59
31
0
197

79
83
303
79
0
544

251
10
134
25
1
421

203
31
34
6
0
274

22
18
15
29
2
86

34
2
5
2
0
43

Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research (DS)ー Better Future through Academic Partnerships and Collaborations ー

Our ROIS-DS is to support a variety of
researchers in conducting projects on thesubjects of data-driven and data-oriented
sciences (collectively called here as data
science) using technologies for big-data
analysis through collaborations with themembers of our Centers.

ROIS as a Hub for Japan’s Academic Societies

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The Joint Support-Center for Data Science
Research opened in April 2016 to further the
ROIS’s eﬀort in promoting interdisciplinary
research and aggregating and processing alarge volume of data for advanced analysis.

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Data Analysis Support Groups• Center for Genome Informatics: Supporting
computational analysis of genomic/proteomic data
(e.g. next-generation sequencing data) based on thestate-of-the-art bioinformatics artiﬁces.
• Support Project for Data Fusion Computation:
Supporting simulation and modeling studies basedon statistical methodologies such as data
assimilation and statistical emulation, aiming at
solving practical problems in science and industry.

Earth &
Environmental
Science

Linguistics

Resource-sharing
and
Joint Research

Academic
Big Data

ROIS
Joint Support-Center
for Data Science
Research

Schools
School ofMultidisciplinary
Sciences
School of Life
Sciences

Departments

Parentinstitutes

Total

Polar Science

NIPR

20

0

Informatics

NII

82

52

Statistical Sciene

ISM

26

2

NIG

37

11

Total

165

65

Genetics

Number of
Foreigner- Cross-discipline
Interactions-Knowledge
Discovery-New Research
Areas- Supports for Data-sharing- Supports for Data analysis- Fosters New Talents in
Data Science

DS Organization
Researchers who wish to conduct data science research through collaboration

Various support for
Joint use & Joint researchDatasharing
support

Database
CenterforLife ScienceData
analysis
supportCenterfor Genome
Informatics

Polar
Environment
Data Science
CenterAuditors

Executive
Directors

President

Management
CouncilCenter forOpen Datain theHumanities

ROIS Organization(as of April 2016)

Board of Directors
Education andResearch Council

Conference of
DirectorsGeneral

National Instituteof Polar Research
Administrative
CouncilResearchCenters
andDivisionsCenter forSocial Data
Structuring

Support Project for Data Fusion Computation

President
Nomination
Committee

Director-General

Students in SOKENDAI, The Graduate University for
Advanced Studies (as of May 2016)

Astronomy

Life Science
Medicine &PharmacyOﬃce of
Strategic
Planning

Postgraduate Education
The research institutes provide critical support for The
Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
by bringing together cutting-edge research andeducation to foster the next generations of skilledworkers.

Physics &Chemistry

Finance &Economics

DS Centers and Project
Data Sharing Support Groups• Database Center for Life Science: Promoting
developments of open science and databaseintegrations in life science ﬁelds.
• Polar Environment Data Science Center: Promoting
various research collaboration with a synthetic
database and analysis-support-tools for long-term
variation of polar environment in global earthsystem.
• Center for Social Data Structuring: Building aplatform for managing social data, including social
survey data, public opinion data, oﬃcial micro dataand social big data, for providing empirical data thatsolve various social issues.
• Center for Open Data in the Humanities: Sharing
data for and from humanities to develop novel
approaches for data science-driven humanities, ordigital humanities, on an integrated platform that
goes beyond organizational and disciplinary barriers.

Research Communities

Data

Oﬃce for
CrisisOﬃce forPromotingManagement Gender Administration
Oﬃce
and
Oﬃce
Equality
Planning ofCounter
Misconduct
and Improper
General Financial
Audit
Dealing
AfairsDivision
Oﬃce
in Research
Division
Activities

The Institute of
Statistical
Mathematics

National Instituteof Informatics

National Instituteof Genetics

Director-General
Administrative
Council

Director-General

Director-General

Administrative
Council

Administrative
CouncilResearchCenters
andDivisions

ResearchCenters
andDivisions

GeneralAﬀairsDepartment

GeneralAﬀairsDepartment

NIPR/ISM
Joint
Administration
Oﬃce

ResearchCenters
andDivisions

Joint
SupportCenter for
Data
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Four Research Institutes in Pursuit of ScientificPrinciples and Cutting-edge Research

National Institute ofPolar Research

The Antarctic and the Arctic each encompass an areawith a unique natural system. The NIPR promotes joint
projects aiming to advance comprehensive, cutting-edge
earth system science that connects all relevant sciences,including earth science, environmental science,solar-terrestrial science, earth and planetary sciences.
The Institute supports such projects by oﬀering analysis
and modeling of data and samples from ﬁeld monitoring
activities that it conducts. The NIPR, which has observing
stations in the Antarctic and the Arctic, is also the chief
operating organization for the Arctic Challenge for
Sustainability Project.

▪ We identiﬁed the “Prolonged Aurora” phenomena*¹ from 800 years ago through the
NIRP’s analysis of classical statistics. The research involved carbon isotope measurement
and the examination of ‘Meigetsuki’ and ‘Soushi,’ Japanese and Chinese historical
written materials respectively, which led to our discovery of the emergent pattern ofserial giant magnetic storms.
▪ We elucidated the climate instability over the past 720,000 years*². This is theculmination of the analysis of data from the Deep Ice Coring Project at our Antarctica
Dome Fuji Station and climate simulations.
▪ We launched the ‘Polar Data Journal,’ becoming Japan’ s ﬁrst academic institution to
publish a data journal.
▪ The CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere exceeds*³ 400 ppm*⁴ at the Showa Station.
▪ The Antarctic sea ice area shrunk to the smallest size on record*⁵.

Changes in solar activity that are reconstructedfrom tree rings

Polar Data Journal Website（http://pdr.repo.nii.ac.jp/）

Important ice-coring sites in the eastern
Antarctic and an ice core taken at the Dome
Fuji Station

National Institute ofInformatics

NII promotes research in all areas of informatics – fromtheoretical computer science to such cutting-edge
topics as artiﬁcial intelligence, big data, IoT (Internet ofThings) and cybersecurity – to build the way for “future
value creation” in this new study ﬁeld as Japan’ s only
academic informatics research center. In addition tobuilding and operating academic information
infrastructures and networks, such as SINET5, NII oﬀers
academic content and services to maximize the ﬂow of
information. NII aslo focuses on collaboration with
universities, research institutions and corporations
both inside Japan and overseas.

*1: Joint research with the National Institute of Japanese Literature, Kyoto University and others.
*2: Joint research with 31 institutions and 64 researchers, including Tokyo University and the Japan
Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.
*3: Joint research with Tohoku University.
*4: 1ppm equals to 0.0001%*5: Based on monitoring data from “Shizuku” the water cycle change monitoring satellite thatbelongs to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

A member of the 57th Antarctic Observation
Wintering Party measuring CO₂ concentration levels
inside the observation building at the Showa Station▪ Unveiling of biometricJammer at CeBIT
2017:A method for preventing photographic
capture of ﬁngerprint information thatneither inhibits ﬁngerprint sensor
authentication nor causes any visual
discomfort, which is the ﬁrst in the world tobedeveloped.
▪ Development of speaker adaptation
technology for statistical parametric speechsynthesis:Our technology allows automaticsynthesis of natural speech from a few
minutes of voice data, and it has been used
to assist people with voice impairment.
▪ Successful long-distance data transfer at theworld record speed:We achieved theserver-to-server transfer speed of 150Gbps, the highest speed ever recorded, in
our joint experiment with the NICT (National Institute of Information andCommunications Technology) for Japan-U.S. data transfer.

10TB transferred: 8 min 58 sec
Approx. 75Gbps (U.S. → Japan)
1TB
transferred

The new and improved technique uses a ﬁngerprint pattern that resembles an actual one(right) in place of the geometric pattern used in the conventional technique (left). (The rightphoto shows image thresholding of ﬁngerprints for feature point extraction. The ﬁngerprints
are unrecognizable in both photos.)

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Experiment result (Bandwidth usage, Observation Point 4-SINET5: Tokyo-Los Angeles)
Source: SINET5 NOC

Overviews of the four institutes that are on the
cutting-edge of polar science, informatics, statistical mathematics
and genetics with some highlights of their recent research work

The Institute of
Statistical Mathematics
Statistical mathematics refers to a science aimed at
extracting meaningful information from statistics in order togain and develop knowledge that is useful for decisionmaking. As Japan’s only research institute focused on
statistical mathematics, the ISM conducts both basic andcutting-edge research and works to accelerate solutions toacademic, societal and industrial problems through anundertaking known as NOE (Network Of Excellence) and bytraining new generation of data analytics talents. The NOE is
a program that promotes collaborations among theacademic world, the industry and the public-at-large in an
organized manner.
Leading innovation andopening the cutting-edge
Leading and managing
the projects
Working on his/her
own initiative
Working underappropriate guidance

Top talent

Equivalent of JSSC
Semi-First Grade
Equivalent of JSSC
Second GradeThe skill levels for data-scientists issued by
The Japan DataScientist Society(December 2014)＊1: JST-CREST “Statistical Computational Cosmology with Big Astronomical Imaging Data”

5 people

Equivalent of
JSSC*2 RSS/JBS
Equivalent of JSSCFirst Grade▪ Development of New Talents in Data Science: We invite data-scientists to work with us
on various cutting-edge projects according to their skill sets and abilities.
▪ Extraction of Supernova from Massive Astronomical Data: We successfully identiﬁed
about 100 supernova after collecting massive observation data with the use of the
Subaru Telescope and performing super-high speed analysis by taking advantage ofmachine learning. *¹▪ Establishment of Akaike Memorial Lecture Award: Co-established by the ISM and theJapan Statistical Society to advance research and develop young researchers in the ﬁeld,
the award is presented to individuals who like Dr. Akaike, stood out as being ahead of
their time, exercising an international inﬂuence over a wide range of ﬁelds in thestatistical sciences and applied ﬁelds. We held the memorial lecture by the ﬁrst awardee,
Prof. C.F. Jeﬀ Wu of Georgia Institute of Technology.

50 people
500 people
5,000 people
50,000 people
500,000 people

Annual target number of training for each skill level (Based on the report from the ROIS round-table
meeting of industry-government-academia published in 2015)*2：JSSC (Japan Statistical Society Certiﬁcation)

National Institute of
Genetics

Life is a complex system generated by interactions between
genetic information engraved in the genome and theinternal/external environments of the body. In order todecode this system, NIG conducts cutting-edge research on
cell function, development and diﬀerentiation, evolution
and diversity, and genome information among other topics.
As an international hub for life science research, NIG
operates three research infrastructure projects: BioResource
Project, Advanced Genomics Project, and DNA Data Bank ofJapan (DDBJ) Project. In addition, NIG's Center for Frontier
Research provides budding researchers with independent
positions and opportunities to develop new frontiers in life
sciences.

The observation images by Subaru
TelescopeAwarding of the commemorative plaque to Prof. Wu(right)from Prof. T. Higuchi, Director-General of ISM(left)▪ Regulation of Cell Cycle Progression by Chloroplast Division: The Miyagishima Group
found that constriction of the chloroplast division site is required for prophase tometaphase transition of the host cell, thereby synchronizing the division of the cell andthe chloroplast.
▪ The First Determination of the Nuclear Genome Sequence of the Jomon People: The
Saitou group determined partial nuclear genome sequences from the 3,000-year-old
teeth of the Jomon people excavated from Sanganji Shell Mound, Fukushima.
▪ Estimation of Intracellular Forces Using Data Assimilation: The Kimura group developed acomputational method for estimating the localization and amplitude of the forces
generating cytoplasmic streaming.

Ancient Siberian 1

South American
East EurasianPapuanAncient Siberian 2West EurasianAfricanDenisovan

A chloroplast division ring is formed in the S phase. The constriction of
the ring permits the cell to enter metaphase.

Phylogenic tree of Jomon and other populations.
The values in red indicate credibility level of thetree branches while the arrows indicate
miscegenation.

Cytoplasmic ﬂow predicted from forces estimated bydata assimilation (right) agrees well with the actual
ﬂow observed in the cell (left).

5Resource Sharing and Joint Research to
Meet the Needs of Universities

Large-scale Atmosphere Radar at the Showa Station(PANSY: Program of the Antarctic Syowa MST/IS radar)Ny-Ålesund Research Station (79 degrees north latitude)

Resource-sharing in the Artic Region

An Arctic atmospheric aerosol observation (Universityof Tokyo, Nagoya University and Fukuoka University),
an atmospheric observation involving the use of acloud radar (Chiba University) and various other joint
research projects are taking place at the Ny-Ålesund
Research Station in Sweden’ s Svalbard Islands.

Alternative: Facilities and Equipment for Analysis of
Polar Science Sample Data

二次イオン質量分析計 SHRIMPThe Ice Core Research Center at the NIPR provides assistance for
ice-coring and makes coring equipment available. The Institutealso oﬀers ice cores harvested at the Antarctic Dome Fuji station
and analytic data of the samples. In addition, the NIPR provides
samples of meteorites, rocks and minerals to researchers andanalyses conducted on the samples with the use of a secondary
mass ion spectrometer (SHRIMP) through the Polar Science
Resource Center. The NIPR is the only institution in Japan that uses
large-scale computing machine system for polar science andcalibrates an optical instrument that uses a large scale integrating
sphere.

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Showa Station marked its 60th anniversary in January 2017. A
total of 3,283 researchers have participated in the research
expeditions operated out of Showa Station over the years.
The 57th expedition conducted in 2015 alone had 535
researchers from 78 national, national, prefectural andprivate universities taking part in 67 diﬀerent assignments.

Logical Paths (Active)
Logical Paths (Standby)(Details omitted)

LondonDomestic Network(100Gbps)
Global Network(100Gbps)
Global Network(10Gbps)

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New York
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Science Information NETwork (SINET5) Infrastructure
Science Information NETwork (SINET5)

As an inter-university research institute, NII coordinates with academic institutions and theresearch community. For starters, it built and now operates the Science Information NETwork(SINET5), the world's most-advanced, high-speed network linked to domestic and internationalsites. Furthermore, the Institute takes advantage of this super high-speed and highly functional
network to build a cloud infrastructure, develop security systems, make academic contents
available and promote open science.

Information Security System Infrastructure through Inter-university Collaborations

NII works with national university corporations and other institutions to build systems for the SINET for
monitoring, detecting and analyzing cyber-attacks. The Institute also shares information with aﬃliatedagencies both inside and outside Japan and provides necessary information to national universities andother institutions according to the severity and urgency of the attack risks. In addition, NII holds training
sessions for security managers to help them gain advanced skills for dealing with cyber-attacks sonational universities and other academic institutions will have better systems in place to respond toincidents and emergency situations arising from attacks.

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data storage and promoting better data usage are
extremely important to these academic
institutions, and NII supports their endeavors bydeveloping research data infrastructures.

We take advantage of the academic research bases as well as global
partnerships to make a wide range of research and educational
support programs available to universities.
Advice from Advisory Board

Risk Research
NOE
Data Science forCreative Design&
Manufacturing
NOE**started forming in 2017

Risk
Research
Network

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Statistical Machine
Learning
NOE

Connections in each NOE
including researchorganizations related by
MOUs

Next-Generation
Simulation
NOE

Survey Science
NOE

Advisory Board of NOE Project

NOE (Network Of Excellence) ProjectSupercomputer “AIC”

Related by MOUs with 10 domestic research organizations and 20
abroad research organizations*¹, the ISM forms NOEs (Network Of
Excellence) and serves as hubs for development of interdisciplinary
research for solution of complicated problems required modern society.

Project for Fostering and Promoting StatisticalThinking

The ISM strives to foster skilled data-scientists to meet thedemand of the era of big-data through various programs
operated by the School of Statistical Thinking, which aremostly geared toward young talents. Such programs include“Research Collaboration Start-up,” which advises universities,
companies and government agencies and “Data Science
Research Plaza,” which accepts researchers from companies.

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The ISM provides a supercomputer environment consisting of three supercomputers: “Data Assimilation
Supercomputer A,” which is a shared-memory supercomputer that boasts the highest performance in theworld*²; “Statistical Mathematics Supercomputer I,” which is a distributed-memory supercomputer designed forresource-sharing; and “Shared Cloud Computing System C,” which comes with a wide range of apps for diﬀerent
purposes. The Institute also uses an academic literature database to provide universities with “academic
literature data analysis” that can be used as the guidance in determining institutional research methodologies.
The ISM provides an advanced computational environment and information resources, including periodicals andliterature collections related to statistics, mathematics, computing machine science and informatic science.

*1: As of July 2017
*2: Graph500 (As of November 2015)

Next-Generation DNA Sequencers

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Genetic Modiﬁcation & Model
Organism Resources

The Mouse Research Supporting Unit assists inthe production of genetically modiﬁed miceusing advanced genome engineering techniques.
The Genetic Resource Center develops,
preserves, and distributes strains of various
model organisms, including those of zebraﬁsh,
Drosophila melanogaster and rice. The center
also provides a bioresource database containing
information on 6.5 million genetic strains.

NIG Supercomputers

NIG provides supercomputers optimized forbio-application such as genome analysis andannotation. Currently, 250 research institutions and
3,000 users take advantage of NIG's supercomputers.

Genome Sequencing, Archiving, andAnalysis

The Advanced Genomics Center oﬀers the latest
sequencing technology and genomic research tools to
the research community. To date, the Center has
produced genome information on more than 450
organisms. DDBJ Center is a worldwide center for DNA
data archiving and has more than 240 million
sequences registered in its database.

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Science Report WebSite

Akaike Guest HouseThe ROIS publishes an online magazine, Science Report, toinform the audience overseas about Japan’ s latest academic
research activities and achievements. Science Report focuses
on a speciﬁc research topic for six months at a time withmonthly feature articles introducing diﬀerent aspects of theﬁeld. The magazine is intended to provide insights intosome of the major ongoing research projects and how thecountry uses the Team Japan
approach to bring together all
the expertise and resources it
h a s t o o ﬀe r t o a d va n c estudies in certain areas. The
site oﬀers links to the news
releases and publications ofvarious universities and otheracademic institutions fromacross Japan.
https://sr.rois.ac.jp/en/

The ISM opened Akaike Guest
House in June 2010 in thesuburban city of Tachikawa inTokyo to oﬀer researchersv i s i ti n g f ro m o u t o f t h eregion/country a place to staythat has easy access to theirresearch sites. The facility was named after the late Dr. Hirotugu
Akaike, a renowned statistician, to pay tribute to his
wide-reaching and inﬂuential achievements in the ﬁeld of
Statistical Science. We hope Dr. Akaike is watching us over as we
strive to advance science and try to carry on his legacy.
http://www.ism.ac.jp/akaikememorial/guesthouse-e.html

Activities for Gender Equality
The ROIS has the Oﬃce for Gender Equality set up at each of its
research centers to promote a fair and equal work environment
where both men and women researchers can thrive and accessthe support they need. As part of the initiative, the ROIS also
publishes on its website a directory of female researchers who
can be found through the ROIS researchmap search engine.
Women Researchers of Japan Website
http://women.rois.ac.jp/❶ Inter-University Research Institute Corporation
Research Organization of Information and Systems
Tokyo Head Office
Hulic Kamiyacho Bldg. 2F, 4-3-13, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001, Japan
Phone: +81-3-6402-6200
http://www.rois.ac.jp/english/

Saitama Prefecture❷ National Institute of Polar Research●●❷❹❻ Tokyo

10-3, Midori-cho, Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
Phone: +81-42-512-0647
http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/❸ National Institute of Informatics

Kanagawa Prefecture

Chiba
Prefecture

ShizuokaPrefecture❹ The Institute of Statistical Mathematics●❺

10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8562, Japan
Phone: +81-50-5533-8500
http://www.ism.ac.jp/index_e.html
1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan
Phone: +81-55-981-6707(Administration Office)https://www.nig.ac.jp/nig/

National Institute ofInformatics
Chiba Annex

Yamanashi Prefecture

2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan
Phone: +81-3-4212-2000(Exchange)
http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/❺ National Institute of Genetics

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❶

The Arctic
National Institute of Polar ResearchNy-Ålesund Research Station

National Institute ofPolar Research
Syowa Station❻ Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research(DS)Data Science Building, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-0014, Japan
Phone: +81-42-512-9254
https://ds.rois.ac.jp/

National Institute of Polar Research
Dome Fuji Station

The Antarctic

http://www.rois.ac.jp/english/
Contact Phone: +81-3-6402-6200
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