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Aya Kubota, Professor
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The Urban Design Lab studies methodologies for understanding on-site realities in order to envision how regions should be. Visiting disaster-affected areas, the lab repeats surveys and proposals while learning from the people who live there, the landscapes, and the relationships among people. It aims for design in which spatial intervention brings about emergence, and for design that values the "roots" that support the existence of people and things. The lab was established in 1995, and Prof. Kubota has led it since fiscal 2023.
Tetsutaro Oishi, Associate Professor
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The Oishi-Takahashi Lab studies plasma in the divertor region of fusion reactors. In magnetic confinement fusion reactors, methods for controlling and predicting the flow of heat leaking from the reactor core are regarded as a key challenge. The lab uses DT-ALPHA, a linear plasma device, to simulate the divertor region of a reactor and investigates the atomic and molecular processes that take place there. It tackles the problem through both experiments and simulations, and hopes to develop its results further through joint research with institutions in Japan and abroad.
Makoto Takahashi, Professor
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The Takahashi-Karikawa Lab studies how to improve the safety of large, complex systems in which humans play the main role in ensuring safety. Focusing on aviation systems and nuclear power plants, the lab conducts practical research in partnership with people working in the field. In addition to human cognitive models and the perspective of behavioral economics, the lab develops technologies that estimate a person's state from biological information such as visual information, heart rate variability, and brain activity. The lab also studies the social acceptance of advanced technologies such as AI and nuclear power, drawing on the concept of subjective risk perception.
Hiroshi Watabe, Professor
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The Watabe Lab conducts research on putting accelerators, radiation, and radioisotopes (RIs) to good use. Its foundation is technology for measuring radiation and knowledge of how radiation behaves inside matter. Using accelerators such as the cyclotron at Tohoku University, the lab works on PIXE analysis, which examines extremely small amounts of elements, and on methods for developing new radiopharmaceuticals used in PET scans. The lab aims to “contribute to people’s health and to a safe, secure society through radiation science.”
Kiyotoshi Sakaguchi, Professor
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The Sakaguchi-Satomi-Sueyoshi Lab builds on geomechanics and environmentally harmonious development studies, and aims to build an environmentally harmonious society. The lab studies ways to develop and use underground energy resources, including geothermal energy, and mineral resources in a sustainable manner. To make advanced use of the underground, for purposes such as energy storage and waste disposal, the lab works on measuring crustal rock properties and crustal stress, and on developing the related technologies. The lab also works on building systems of environmentally harmonious construction technology, based on the mechanical interaction between construction and development machinery and soil and rock.
Atsushi Iizuka, Professor
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Iizuka-Ho Lab studies technologies for circulating resources and carbon dioxide, as well as technologies for environmental remediation. Using materials such as steel slag and waste concrete, the lab converts carbon dioxide into stable carbonates, leading to its storage and effective use. In water treatment, the lab works with remediation materials made from concrete-based materials and with electrochemical methods that use membranes. It is a relatively new lab, established in April 2023.
Tetsuya Tanaka, Professor
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The Animal Microbiology Lab studies the "virulence" of pathogenic microorganisms relevant to livestock and environmental hygiene. Focusing on microbial metabolism, physiological phenomena, and immune mechanisms, it investigates questions such as "what makes a pathogen harmful," "how does it spread," and "how do drug-resistant pathogens differ?" Ticks, which parasitize animals and feed on their blood, and the pathogens that ticks carry are also research subjects. Using the findings, the lab is also developing new control measures against infectious diseases, such as antimicrobial agents.
Haruki Kitazawa, Professor
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The lab conducts research to improve the health and physiological functions of livestock such as cattle and pigs, and to make use of safe, highly functional animal-derived foods. Drawing on food immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, genetic engineering, and carbohydrate chemistry, the lab pursues health and functionality from the perspective of animal production science. It focuses on probiotics, such as lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria, that function in fermented milk, cheese, and feed additives, and investigates how they modulate mucosal immunity. Students and staff isolate functional bacteria from milk and intestinal samples and explore their potential.
Hisako Sekine, Professor
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The Farm Management Lab conducts research in line with each student's own concerns. Because students choose the topics of their bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses themselves, the subjects vary widely, including corporate entry into agriculture, agricultural consultants, and heat-tolerant paddy rice varieties. For students who are unsure what they want to do, the lab provides guidance suited to their worries, such as helping them think about what they are interested in. The lab aims to be a place where members think things through together by discussing them.
Tsuyosi Sumita, Professor
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The Regional Resource Planning Lab takes the field sites of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and rural areas in Japan and abroad as its subjects, comprehensively analyzes the issues they face, and examines ways to overcome them. Drawing on knowledge from the social sciences and natural sciences, the lab conducts education and research aimed at building new social systems. On the lab's page, it is introduced as the Field Socio-Technology Division.
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