Newsletter No. 7

Dr. Kuwama Elected as Treasurer and Director

At the FUTI Board meeting of November 7th, 2012, Dr. YuichiroKuwama, M.D. , who had been a member of the ...

Selection of 2013 Summer Scholarship Recipients Begins

The scholarship committee chaired by Dr. Masaaki Yamada, Director of University Relations, has selected eight U.S. students and four UTokyo ...

Fundraising Campaign Continues: Interim Report and Reminder

As we announced in Newsletter No. 6, we have been actively pursuing our fourth Annual Campaign to raise fund for ...

Donor’s Message

In Newsletter No. 6 of last fall, we reported the messages from several donors. In the current issue we are ...

UTokyo and Princeton Establish Strategic Partnership

Princeton University and UTokyo (the University of Tokyo) have established a strategic partnership that will support collaborations in research and ...

FUTI Director Professor Koichi Hamada Appointed as Special Advisor to the Abe Cabinet

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of LDP, who recently returned to power, decided on December 16th to appoint Professor Emeritus Koichi ...

FUTI President Kobayashi Receives the C&C Prize

FUTI President Hisashi Kobayashi received the 2012 C&C (Computer & Communications) Prize. The citation of his award reads “For his ...

Dr. Kurokawa Lectures on Investigation of Fukushima Nuclear Accident

On October 17, 2012, Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Academic Fellow of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, and Professor Emeritus of ...

Chicago Akamonkai’s Year-End Party

Chicago Akamonkai (UTokyo alumni association) held its year-end party on December 8, 2012 at a fashionable Italian restaurant, Carlucci, in ...

The 2013 Annual Meeting of SF Akamonkai Held

On Saturday February 9th, 2013, the Annual Meeting of San Francisco Akamonkai (the UTokyo Alumni Group of the region) was ...

NY Ichokai’s 12th Annual Reception Held

On February 15, 2013, the New York Icho-kai, an association of UTokyo alumni in the New York region, held its ...

The Ito International Research Center Awaits You!

The Ito International Research Center(Ito Center)opened in April 2012. The Ito Center was established to promote UTokyo's cooperation with society ...

Book Review:"America Knows that Japan’s Economy Will Revive" (in Japanese)

"America Knows that Japan’s Economy will Revive (in Japanese)" (Kodansha Press, January 2013, 271 pages, ISBN978-4-06-218151-8) by Professor Emeritus Koichi ...

Book Review: Takeo Hoshi & Anil K. Kashyap: "Why Did Japan Stop Growing–Policy Options for Japan’s Revival" (in Japanese)

Dr. Takeo Hoshi, Professor of Stanford University and a member of the San Francisco Akamon-kai, and Prof. Anil K. Kashyap ...

February 2013 Special Issue of Journal “Mathematical Seminar” (in Japanese) in Honor of Shoshichi Kobayashi

The February 2013 issue of Journal “Mathematical Seminar” (in Japanese) is a special issue in honor of Shoshichi Kobayashi of ...