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Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/
The Institute is an internationally-oriented
center for scholars employing humanities
and social science methodologies to advance
integrated research into, and understanding
of Japan, Asia, and the world in
the past, present, and future. Research on
Asia at the Institute has the following particular
strengths: 1) achieving a better understanding
of the modern world through
informed insights into classical cultures; 2)
integrating rigorous textual and documentary
analysis with meticulous field research;
3) from a global perspective, combining
and harmonizing the approaches of the
humanities and the social sciences.
In order to enhance its function as an
international center of Asian studies, the
Institute is responsible for the editorship of
the English-language International Journal
of Asian Studies (IJAS), published by
Cambridge University Press, and, through
consortium arrangements concluded in
2010, has begun active research collaboration
with the East Asian Studies
Department at Princeton University and
the National Institute for Advanced Humanistic
Studies at Fudan University. And,
to ensure that the Institute remains abreast
of most recent trends, in 2011 a new
Department of Pioneering Asian Studies
was created, which focuses on the deployment
of cutting-edge perspectives and
methodologies.
Research Departments
Pan Asian Studies, East Asian Studies,
South Asian Studies, West Asian Studies,
Pioneering Asian Studies
Affiliated Research Facilities
Research and Information Center for Asian
Studies
Affiliated Institutes
Institute of Social Science
http://www.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
The University of Tokyo is composed of 15
graduate schools and 11 affiliated research
institutes. Shaken (ISS) is one of these
research institutes.
The ISS was established in 1946
based on reflection of the bitter experience
of the war and the nature of prewar
Japanese social science research. The
institute aims to support the construction
of a “democratic and peace-loving nation”
by promoting empirical social science
based on systematic collection of data
and conducting comparative studies of
high academic standards.
The disciplines of ISS staff cover the
four academic fields of social sciences
of law, political science, economics and
sociology, and the regions that are being
studied spread throughout Japan, East
Asia, Europe and the Americas.
The mission of the ISS is to conduct
empirical studies using historical and comparative
perspectives, and to contribute to
a social scientific understanding of Japan
and of the world by taking advantage of the
interdisciplinary and international nature of
academic foundation.
ISS staff engages in educational activities
in graduate and undergraduate schools
by offering lectures and seminars
Departments
Comparative Contemporary Law,
Comparative Contemporary Politics,
Comparative Contemporary Economics,
Comparative Contemporary Societies,
International Approach to Japanese Studies
Affiliated Research Facilities
Center for Social Research and Data Archives
Institute of Industrial Science
http://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_e.html
The Institute of Industrial Science promotes
comprehensive research and
education in nearly all fields of engineering.
We promote the development of
interdisciplinary research that transects
different fields from creative research
based on researcher’s ideas. Our activities
Research Departments
Department of Fundamental Engineering, Department
of Mechanical and Biofunctional Systems,
Department of Informatics and Electronics,
Department of Materials and Environmental
Science, Department of Human and Social
Systems, Guest Chairs for Advanced Interdisciplinary
Modeling, Advanced Energy Conversion
Engineering, Endowed Research Unit for Nonferrous
Metal Resource Recovery Engineering,
Nikon Imaging Science
focus on making these results useful to
actual society and making them reflect
graduate school level education. We are
expanding our range of activities globally
and playing an important role as hub for
an international research network.
Affiliated Research Centers &
Experiment Station
Chiba Experiment Station, Center for Information
Fusion, Center for Research on Innovative Simulation
Software (CISS), Collaborative Research
Center for Energy Engineering (CEE), Underwater
Technology Research Center, Advanced
Mobility Research Center (ITS Center); Center
for International Research on Micronano Mechatronics
(CIRMM), International Research Center
for Sustainable Materials, International Center for
Urban Safety Engineering (ICUS), Nanoelectronics
Collaborative Research Center, Collaborative
Research Center for Bio Nano Hybrid Process,
Collaborative Research Center for Innovative
Mathematical Modelling, LIMMS CNRS-IIS
(UMI 2820), Academic-industry Partnership for
Proactive & Holistic Energy Demand Management
for Construction Sector, Social Cooperation
Program, Mobility and Field Science
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