Sony Corp. said Wednesday that it will develop a satellite jointly with the University of Tokyo and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA. The Japanese company will develop a camera for use in a satellite that can be controlled remotely from Earth in real ...
University of Tokyo team tests wave power generator in Kanagawa
A team of the University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science and other organizations have begun testing a wave power generator at a fishing port in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. The equipment can generate electricity efficiently as it uses not only incoming waves but those bouncing ...
Jin Sato: Taking a global view of state-society relations
Professor Jin Sato on the most memorable lecture he ever gave, Japan’s go-to techniques for multinational cooperation and the three foods he always has in his fridge.
Former Mr. Todai finalist Daiki Inai gets three-year suspended sentence for Tokyo rape
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday handed a three-year suspended sentence to a 26-year-old man for raping a woman living in the apartment building where he was living in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in 2018. The court found Daiki Inai, who was 24 and a University ...
University of Tokyo fires associate professor over anti-Chinese Twitter posts
The state-run University of Tokyo said Shohei Osawa, an artificial intelligence researcher, “grossly damaged the honor and reputation” of the institution with controversial comments about hiring Chinese.
VR builds bridge between staff and young detainees with developmental disorders in Japan
One day in mid-November, instructors at the Miyagawa medical reformatory, which treats delinquent teenage boys with developmental disorders, in Ise, Mie Prefecture, experienced how people with the disabilities perceive the world by wearing virtual reality goggles and watching a video. "Oh, it's so bright I'm ...
SoftBank and University of Tokyo to open business-oriented AI research centers
SoftBank Corp. and the University of Tokyo have agreed to open artificial-intelligence centers staffed with specialists from the university and around the world, to swiftly turn research into profitable business ventures so Japan can keep up with the U.S. and China. "If they are stuck ...
Tokyo University team to start first clinical trials of new Ebola vaccine
A team of University of Tokyo researchers said Thursday it will begin later this month the nation's first clinical study on a vaccine for the Ebola virus. The new vaccine developed by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor at the university's Institute of Medical Science, and others ...
Tokyo University team confirms mutated flu viruses resistant to antiviral drug are highly infectious
A research team has confirmed in animal testing that mutated influenza viruses resistant to baloxavir marboxil, an antiflu drug sold as Xofluza, can cause infections and symptoms to a degree comparable to regular influenza viruses. The team, led by University of Tokyo professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka, ...
Toshiba to tie up with University of Tokyo in global race to secure more AI engineers
Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it will team up with the University of Tokyo to nurture specialists in artificial intelligence as part of efforts to secure talent in the hot next-generation technology. The electronics giant aims to nearly triple its AI engineers to 2,000 by March ...
Hokkaido Ainu association sues University of Tokyo to have remains returned
An Ainu indigenous rights association in Hokkaido has filed a lawsuit against the University of Tokyo, seeking the return of remains of their ancestors stored at the university. In the suit filed Friday at the Kushiro District Court, the Urahoro branch of the Ainu Association ...
Yuki Hirose: Exploring the cognitive basis of language
Psycholinguistics professor Yuki Hirose on why she can't read your mind, getting children to sit still for academic studies and the qualities she looks for in a mentor.
