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Slow earthquakes are long-period earthquakes that are not so dangerous alone, but are able to trigger more destructive earthquakes. Their origins lie in tectonic plate boundaries where one plate subsides below another. Though the causal…

Migrating storms and local weather systems known as cyclones and anticyclones were thought to contribute to behaviors and properties of our global weather system. However, the means to probe cyclones and anticyclones were limited. For the…

The University of Tokyo and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) on June 17, 2021 announced that they have agreed to form a partnership towards realizing carbon neutrality.As society focuses on the environment and particularly on…

A new rotating chair program has been launched in recognition of the achievements of Prof. Hisashi Owada, a graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, and former President of the International Court of Justice…

The University of Tokyo and France’s Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) have launched a joint call for proposals between the two institutions in order to develop a new promising cooperation.The CNRS is among the world’s…

COVID-19 is spreading on an unprecedented and global scale. Until a vaccine or remedy is developed, we will need to put in place measures to prevent the number of infections from growing at an explosive rate. Mathematical models can play…

Sotaro Ohara had toyed with the idea of becoming an entrepreneur while working as an engineer at a Japanese manufacturing giant in the early 2010s. But it was a 2015 reunion with his mentor from his University of Tokyo laboratory that…

In the Nature Index Annual Tables 2021 announced by leading academic publisher Springer Nature on May 20, 2021, the University of Tokyo ranked eighth in the world for share of research output.Nature Index tracks research articles…

As anyone who has ever procrastinated knows, remembering that you need to do something and acting on that knowledge are two different things. To understand how learning changes nerve cells and leads to different behaviors, researchers…

The groundbreaking ceremony for the Hyper-Kamiokande, a new world-leading international scientific research project which is set to start experiments in 2027, was held at its construction site in Hida City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan on May…