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Education and research at the Graduate School of Science constantly aims to create and develop knowledge for the fundamental understanding of the truths of the natural world and insure this knowledge is passed on. Instruction in the concepts and methodologies of the physical sciences is given to students who will lead in the next generation, developing cosmopolitan individuals with abundant creativity and furnished with the knowledge and means to solve as yet unknown problems.

This graduate school comprises the five departments of Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science, Chemistry, and Biological Sciences. In addition, the school possesses a number of affiliated centers and research institutions including the botanical gardens at Koishikawa and Nikko, the Misaki Marine Biological Station, the Research Center for Spectrochemistry, the Geochemical Research Center, the Institute of Astronomy, the Center for Nuclear Study, the Research Center for the Early Universe, the Center for Attosecond Laser Science, the Molecular Genetics Research Laboratory, the Institute for Photon Science and Technology, the Universal Biology Institute, the 春雨直播app Organization for Planetary Space Science and the Institute for Physics of Intelligence. Each program receives the cooperation of teaching staff both internal and external to the school and graduate programs and those affiliated with the research institutions in addition to the key lecturers, covering an extensive range of specialized fields. World class research and graduate school education is conducted on each program.

In most cases graduate students are affiliated with a laboratory and proceed with research on a variety of themes under the guidance of teaching staff. Concurrently, knowledge concerning specialized fields and related areas is deepened through lessons and seminars. For the two years of the master's program and for the subsequent three years of the doctoral program, students immerse themselves in research in order to explain a part of the natural structure of nature by means of a profound interaction with nature. The results of this is brought together as a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation, which is then examined and results in the conferral of a master's or doctoral degree. Naturally tackling a new world about which you still have many questions is immensely difficult. However it is not rare for great discoveries to be made from research led by graduate students. New ideas developed by young people in defiance of restraint are indispensable for research in the physical sciences.

At the Graduate School of Science, approximately half of the students who complete the master's program go on to enroll in the doctoral program. In turn many of the students who complete the doctoral program go on to be active primarily as teaching staff in universities and research institutions both domestically and overseas or as postdoctoral staff at the forefront of research.

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2. Departments

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Department of Physics

In the Department of Physics, currently over 130 teaching staff members are engaged in varied cutting-edge research not only on the Hongo Campus but also in some cooperative graduate schools, research institutes, and research centers, such as ISSP¹, ICRR², Kavli IPMU³, JAXA⁴, and KEK⁵. The teaching staff members consist of internationally recognized researchers engaged in the world’s leading research in almost all areas of physics including condensed matter physics, astrophysics and cosmology, elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, and general physics (interdisciplinary physics). The Graduate School has over 140 years of history in research and education in the field of physics, the longest in Japan, and has produced four Nobel Laureates in the last half century: Leo Esaki (1973), Masatoshi Koshiba (2002), Yoichiro Nambu (2008) and Takaaki Kajita (2015) in addition to many other outstanding physicists. These achievements consolidate the Graduate School's position as one of the best in the field of physics.

1. ISSP: The Institute for Solid State Physics
2. ICRR: Institute for Cosmic Ray Research
3. Kavli IPMU: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
4. JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
5. KEK: High Energy Accelerator Research Organization

Department of Astronomy

The broad subject of astronomical research extends from the origins of life and planets, the Sun and stars, galaxies, and the large structure of the universe and its beginning. The mission of this program is the development of researchers who are active on the forefront of a variety of fields in Astronomy. Students who can balance ability and sensitivity in order to pioneer a path to a sophisticated expertise and yet unknown worlds are required. Combining full-time and part-time posts, the number of teaching staff at the Astronomy graduate school course is the largest in Japan and also ranks amongst the top in the world. A wide range of talented individuals from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, JAXA, and other related research institutions are also present in addition to those from the University. This program makes the best use of this characteristic and aims to educate students to have a broad comprehension of the entirety of astronomy.

Department of Earth and Planetary Science

The research of this program broadly targets the Earth's surface environment including the solid earth, atmosphere and oceans and the biosphere; and the planets, satellites and space that form the solar system covering a wide range of research techniques. These research activities are carried out by the five core research groups in the department: Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Space and Planetary Science, Earth and Planetary System Science, Solid Earth Science, and Geosphere and Biosphere Science, in close cooperation with affiliated institutions so as to be a core institute for both research and education in Earth Planetary Science. The educational program aims to train doctoral-level researchers who can become leading figures in their respective fields and students who will take a variety of positions in government, industry, and education, where it is hoped that they will be able to make significant contributions to society. Another important objective of the department is to directly contribute to society through participation in national and international programs of applied research in areas such as global climate change or the mitigation of earthquake hazards.

Department of Chemistry

This program comprises physical chemistry, organic chemistry, and inorganic and analytical chemistry and is an extensive research and educational system prepared with the participation of teaching staffs from the Research Center for Spectrochemistry, Laboratory for Earthquake Chemistry, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Institute for Solid State Physics, the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute and the Isotope Science Center, in addition to staffs from affiliated core programs. The master's program offers a further level of research, with the acquisition of basic knowledge and experimental techniques in the general field of chemistry directly connected with each area of interest. The doctoral program necessitates the improvement of one's faculties through leading junior students together with one's own original high-quality research.

Department of Biological Sciences

The Department of Biological Sciences consists of the three divisions of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Advanced Photon Life Sciences, and Biology, and is organized according to a diverse structure of affiliated institutes and research establishments including the Botanical Gardens, Misaki Marine Biological Station, Molecular Genetics Research Laboratory and others. Research and education of a variety not seen in other graduate school systems is promoted by means of coordinated cooperation capitalizing on this unique characteristic. The subject of this research is various biological phenomena, from a molecular level to that of organelles, cells, tissues, organs, individuals and finally a group level with various research methods being employed.
With the majority of the graduate school curriculum being special experimentation and practice, the study of the fundamentals necessary in order to become a specialist or a researcher in biology is possible by means of guidance through participation in the research of various laboratories.

This program also provides education and research in the fields of Biophysics and Biochemistry (biochemistry, molecular biology etc.). Many teaching staff from the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Institute of Medical Science, and Graduate School of Frontier Sciences participate as a core of specialist staff in order to respond to a research area that is rapidly developing and expanding. The first year of the master's degree program aims to train in the ability to discover, analyze and resolve scientific problems by means of a curriculum that deepens understanding of modern themes in biology and biological phenomena made explicit by scientific papers while also acquiring fundamental knowledge concerning biochemistry and molecular biology and nurturing the qualities of a researcher.