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Mitsuyoshi Akiyama, Professor
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The Akiyama Lab conducts research to improve the safety of infrastructure structures, such as concrete bridges. The lab studies methods to make structures, as well as road and railway networks, less prone to failure and longer-lasting even when multiple factors such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and corrosion (multi-hazard) occur together. Using both experimental and analytical approaches, the lab aims to realize safe and secure infrastructure.
Mitsu Okamura, Professor
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The Okamura Lab studies the properties of ground and soil, aiming to build a society that is resilient to disasters. In addition to academic research in soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, the lab works to clarify phenomena occurring in the field through field surveys and on-site experiments. The lab investigates the causes of ground-related disasters, such as levee damage caused by heavy rain and liquefaction damage caused by earthquakes, and conducts research that leads to countermeasures. The lab also puts its research results to practical use in cooperation with the national government, local governments, and private companies.
Takahito Mikami, Associate Professor
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The Mikami Lab studies natural disasters that occur in coastal areas, such as tsunamis and storm surges. By combining field surveys, hydraulic model experiments, and numerical models, the lab works to clarify what actually happens in disasters and to predict damage. The lab also conducts research that supports better evacuation behavior, taking into account local topography and the characteristics of evacuees.
Akinori Morimoto, Professor
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The Morimoto Lab studies transportation and land use in regional cities. Its themes relate to urban planning, including promoting public transport, compact cities, and TOD (transit-oriented development) strategies. The lab also works on issues such as traffic impact assessment, traffic safety, and population projection and urban shrinkage.
Yoh Sasaki, Professor
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The Sasaki Lab studies how to create rich landscapes and spaces through landscape and design. Focusing on regional cities and hilly and mountainous areas, such as Gujo-Hachiman in Gifu Prefecture and Miyada Village in Nagano Prefecture, the lab conducts place-based surveys and research. Based on the idea that a lab is not an organization but a “place,” people from various backgrounds gather to engage in research, surveys, and community development practice.
Tatsuo Nozaki, Professor
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The Nozaki Lab studies how mineral resources on the seafloor and on land are formed. Using geochemical methods, the lab examines seafloor mineral resources such as seafloor hydrothermal deposits and manganese nodules, as well as land-based ore deposits formed by similar mechanisms. Studying how ore deposits form also helps reveal changes in past Earth environments. The research combines fieldwork, research cruises, microscope observation, and chemical analysis.
Atsushi Yamasaki, Professor
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The lab studies resource minerals and waste materials that are not yet in use, and researches how to turn them into new materials. Drawing on mineral science and the physical chemistry of crystals, the lab conducts basic research to clarify the properties of resource minerals. The lab also puts strong effort into applied research that makes use of the resource materials found in waste to create highly functional materials with a low environmental impact.
Kenji Furui, Professor
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The Furui Lab studies technologies for developing and producing underground energy resources, drawing on rock mechanics (geomechanics). Besides technologies to increase oil and natural gas production capacity, the lab also works on geological CO2 storage and underground hydrogen storage. Using both experiments and simulation, the lab investigates phenomena such as sand production and cracking that occur when force is applied to underground rock. The lab also conducts research on applying these technologies to the development of methane hydrate and geothermal energy.
Keiko Sasaki, Professor
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The Sasaki Lab studies how to make use of waste from the steel industry and metal smelting as resources. It works on creating photocatalyst composites from iron and steel slag and copper smelting slag that produce hydrogen using sunlight. It also studies techniques that use the action of microorganisms to extract metals such as gold and zinc from ore and urban mines. Working with resource-rich countries such as Uzbekistan, the lab pursues resource circulation technologies that are considerate of the global environment.
Hiroshi Okochi, Professor
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The Okochi Lab investigates the actual state of pollutants in the air and water in order to detect changes in the global environment at an early stage. Based on observations at Mt. Fuji and in Shinjuku, it studies transboundary air pollution and the movement of microplastics in the atmosphere. It also studies the effects of air pollutants and radioactive materials on ecosystems, focusing on forests and satoyama (rural woodland areas near villages).
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