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"Wetland," the the United Arab Emirates (UAE) pavilion has been awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.The Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition is one of the most respected…

Professor Takane Ito is an educator who has taught English and linguistics at the University of Tokyo for more than 30 years. In April 2021, she was appointed UTokyo vice president in charge of diversity education.Ito notes that from her…

Senior Professor, University of Colombo, H. D. Karunaratne, Director of the University of Tokyo Sri Lanka Office received “Foreign Minister's Commendations 2021” announced by the Government of Japan on 20 August 2021.Snr. Prof. H. D.…

Senior Professor, University of Colombo, H. D. Karunaratne, Director of the University of Tokyo Sri Lanka Office received “Foreign Minister's Commendations 2021” announced by the Government of Japan on 20 August 2021.Snr. Prof. H. D.…

In the 31st issue of Tansei, published in September 2015, we presented issues based on data that UTokyo should work on with the 30th president. Five and a half years have passed since then. Here, we examine whether we have solved those…

The internet has become essential for our daily modern lives. I have studied the influence of the internet on the forming of public opinion. It has drastically increased the amount of information we can access and expanded the circle of…

We have been studying the mechanisms of human cognitive development by using artificial neural networks that simulate the human brain as well as robots that interact with the environment based on these networks (Figure 1). The human brain…

Physicists have created a new way to observe details about the structure and composition of materials that improves upon previous methods. Conventional spectroscopy changes the frequency of light shining on a sample over time to reveal…

Little is known about the weather at night on Venus as the absence of sunlight makes imaging difficult. Now, researchers have devised a way to use infrared sensors on board the Venus orbiter Akatsuki to reveal the first details of the…

The University of Tokyo and IBM signed an agreement in December 2019 to promote an industry-academia partnership to make Japan a leader in quantum computing. Based on the Japan-IBM Quantum Partnership, UTokyo and the technology giant…