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Fukushige Lab
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The lab designs circulation between products and society.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing the circulation of products and society
The Fukushige Lab (Life Cycle Engineering Lab) studies the whole flow from when a product is made until it is reused as a resource.
Using information technologies such as blockchain, virtual space, and simulation, the lab designs systems for new circular businesses.
The lab also tackles a range of social issues, such as passing on infrastructure inspection skills and operating nursing-care robots.
Key terms
- Blockchain
- A system that links transaction and record information like a chain and stores it shared across multiple computers. It is highly resistant to tampering.
- Machine learning
- Technology that enables computers to learn patterns from large amounts of data and make judgments or predictions.
- CAD
- Technology for creating design drawings of products and parts on a computer (Computer-Aided Design).
NewsLab news
Prof. Fukushige published the book "Opening Up a Sustainable Society through Circular Value Chains"
A master's student received the Best Presentation Award at the FY2024 Autumn Meeting of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering
A master's student received the Best Poster Award at an international conference
ResearchResearch themes
The Fukushige Lab (Life Cycle Engineering Lab) studies how to design products and social systems from the perspective of resource circulation and sustainability. Using information technologies such as blockchain, virtual space, and simulation, the lab works on designing new circular businesses.
*Illustrative imageManaging circulation with blockchain
Using blockchain technology, the lab builds a digital platform that records the usage history and condition of products, and studies mechanisms that allow used products and parts to be reused smoothly.
*Illustrative imageProduct life cycle design
The lab develops models and systems for designing and evaluating, on a computer, the flow from when products and parts are made until they are reused as resources.
*Illustrative imagePassing on infrastructure inspection skills
In joint research with RIKEN, the lab uses machine learning to clarify what skilled technicians rely on when they distinguish the sounds of tapping during road and bridge inspections.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating product design in virtual space
Together with companies, the lab develops ways to recreate in virtual space the environments where products and services are actually used, and to evaluate designs from the user's viewpoint.
MembersFaculty
The Fukushige Lab consists of faculty members and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorShinichi Fukushige
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Recycle Box Tokorozawa” tokorokoko / Public domain (cropped)
- Managing circulation with blockchain: “Very rusty chain in rain 4” W.carter / CC0 (cropped)
- Product life cycle design: “Inside Nautilus Pompilius” Philippe Alès / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Passing on infrastructure inspection skills: “CDC PHIL 10149 – fertilized egg, 11 days old” CDC / Dr. Joseph McDade / Public domain (cropped)
- Evaluating product design in virtual space: “Stereoscope from M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum (01)” M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nonaka Lab): “Kitchen ( )” cage.okada / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Takahashi Lab): “Murmuration 11-2025” Skander zarrad / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tanimizu Lab): “Factory Automation Robotics Palettizing Bread” KUKA Roboter GmbH, Bachmann / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Goto Lab): “Mylar Punched tape” Wtshymanski / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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