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Seiji Tsuno, Associate Professor
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Tsuno Lab conducts research on observing and predicting earthquake shaking and applying it to earthquake disaster prevention. Its fields are engineering seismology (seismology for exploring subsurface structure) and earthquake engineering (strong ground motion for reducing earthquake damage). The lab carries out comprehensive research, including field observations, analysis of observation data, and prediction of ground motion through theory and simulation.
Hitomu Kotani, Associate Professor
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The Kotani Lab conducts research to build a disaster-resilient and sustainable society. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to relationships within communities and society, examining how we coexist with others and with hard and soft infrastructure. Its core interests are disaster risk reduction, social networks, and communities. Grounded in civil engineering planning, the lab's research spans disaster social science and sustainability science.
Nobuyuki Utsumi, Associate Professor
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The Utsumi Lab studies the global water cycle and climate change, with a focus on precipitation. It analyzes, from the perspective of weather systems, how climate change alters rainfall patterns and water resources. It develops methods to capture water in places that are hard to observe from the ground, using instruments such as microwave radiometers aboard satellites. The lab has also addressed how water and weather affect human society, such as forecasting crop pests and diseases and predicting the distribution of malaria in Africa.
Yuki Takayama, Professor
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The Takayama Lab studies, from the standpoint of economic theory, the phenomenon of economic activity agglomerating in space. It explores why people and firms concentrate in cities, and where and to what extent this occurs, through the regularities that cities follow. The lab builds policy evaluation methods that incorporate these mechanisms, making it possible to predict the long-term effects of infrastructure development and urban and regional policy. It also covers the links between transportation and cities, such as how measures against traffic congestion change a city's spatial structure.
Taizo Maruyama, Associate Professor
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The Maruyama Lab studies nondestructive evaluation techniques that use ultrasound to inspect structures and machines for flaws. Using numerical simulation, the lab investigates how waves propagate through solids and how they scatter at cracks and voids. The lab works on nonlinear ultrasonic methods for detecting closed cracks and on the use of guided waves that travel long distances along slender structures. Research draws on mathematics, physics, and programming, and centers on theory and numerical analysis.
Toru Seo, Associate Professor
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The Seo Lab uses mathematical methods to solve problems such as traffic congestion and environmental impact. From both theory and data, the lab explores ways to improve efficiency by combining transportation systems with information and communication technology. It aims to capture from data how traffic flows through huge cities, reproduce it with large-scale simulation, and optimize it. The lab also studies next-generation transportation systems built on new technologies such as autonomous driving and ride-sharing.
Kanae Shinjiro, Professor
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Kanae Lab studies the Earth's water cycle using computer models and satellites. While heavy rain and flood disasters are becoming more serious in Japan and around the world, the shortage of water resources worldwide is also a major problem. Water issues are linked to food, energy, health, and poverty, and are arguably the foremost global environmental problem. The lab carries out cutting-edge research that contributes to solving both "too much water" and "too little water."
Hitoshi Morikawa, Professor
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Morikawa Lab aims to reduce disasters by understanding earthquakes. Its specialties are earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, and it also lists the theory of stochastic processes as a research keyword. The lab balances analysis and observation, taking care to produce research results that fit real-world conditions. Earthquake disaster prevention education is also an object of its research.
Yasunori Muromachi, Professor
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The Muromachi Lab conducts research built around three keywords: urban planning, transportation planning, and environmental planning. While deepening our understanding of human behavior, the lab aims to contribute to improving urban and transport environments. It addresses problems facing large cities in Japan and Asia, such as a declining birthrate and aging population and the decline of central urban areas. The lab also evaluates the effects of transport on the environment, people's health, and disaster prevention, and uses the results to propose policies.
Eiichi Sasaki, Professor
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The Sasaki Lab conducts research mainly on steel structures to support the safety management of infrastructure. It investigates the causes of cracks and fractures produced by traffic loads and earthquakes, and explores ways to prevent them. By measuring vibrations on real bridges and analyzing the data, the lab builds systems that can capture structural behavior and detect damage. The lab also works on inspection methods using eddy currents and on energy harvesting, which generates electricity from bridge vibrations.
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