University of Tokyo

July 21, 2021The 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…

Adults who struggle with foreign languages tend to grumble with envy, saying, “If I had lived abroad in my childhood, I would have become bilingual easily.” But, from the viewpoint of developmental psychology, Professor Etsuko Haryu of…

What do solar panels in rice paddies, the Japanese media’s coverage of feminist movements and robots’ interaction with the elderly have in common? They are all part of research that Ph.D. students at the University of Tokyo are…

For 30 years, University of Tokyo Associate Professor Hisayoshi Nozaki has traveled an hour west of Tokyo to visit the Sagami River and collect algal samples to understand how living things evolved different sexes. Through new analysis of…

Professor Kaori Hayashi at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies remembers the tough times leading to her career as a researcher after enrolling in the Graduate School of Sociology (currently Graduate School of…

The KAGRA Observatory and Kamioka Observatory affiliated with the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research are located in the Kamioka-cho district of Hida, a tranquil municipality situated in the Japanese Alps on the northern edge of Gifu…

In December 2020, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft succeeded in returning samples of rubble collected from near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, wowing people around the world. It marked the second time the Japanese researchers brought back, ahead of…

The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have concluded a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with an aim to explore innovative technologies, new business models and institutional…

Breeding better crops through genetic engineering has been possible for decades, but the use of genetically modified plants has been limited by technical challenges and popular controversies. A new approach potentially solves both of…

There is a significant discrepancy between theoretical and observed amounts of lithium in our universe. This is known as the cosmological lithium problem, and it has plagued cosmologists for decades. Now, researchers have reduced this…