JSPS Summer Program

Sokendai initiated the program in FY 1995 and continued it until FY 2002 as a "Short-term research program for young foreign researchers" supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and then renewed it to be co-organized by Sokendai and JSPS (The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) in FY 2003. Under the auspices of this program, for two months during the summer, young researchers from five countries (USA, UK, France, Germany, and Canada) who have undertaken or just completed doctoral programs are offered both an orientation on Japanese language and culture, and opportunities for joint research programs at research institutes or universities.

Number of invited researchers
	USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Total
Invited researchers for FY 2003	62	8	12	14	5	101
Invited researchers for FY 2004	64	10	13	13	8	108
Invited researchers for FY 2005	63	10	7	13	11	104
Invited researchers for FY 2006	65	8	10	12	12	107
Invited researchers for FY 2007	64	10	13	12	10	109
Invited researchers for FY 2008	63	11	8	14	18	114
Invited researchers for FY 2009	63	10	13	14	15	115

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Besides being a co-organizer and provider of the orientation sessions and final meeting of the JSPS Summer Program, Sokendai can be the host institution for your research experience during the summer, as it is one of the leading universities in Japan with top-level faculty across disciplines. In the following, we introduce some of our professors who are willing to accept JSPS fellows who are interested in their work. We would be most delighted if you could find a future host professor here.

Note: If you wish to work with one of the professors listed on this page, you are asked to contact him/her on your own to seek acceptance.

Department of Functional Molecular Science / Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki

Organization website: http://www.soken.ac.jp/en/academics/functional.html

Name:	Hidehiro Sakurai (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	Institute for Molecular Science
Research fields:	Organic Chemistry
Research subjects:	Buckybowl Chemistry: Synthesis and Properties Gold Nanocluster Catalyst
Lab URL:	http://groups.ims.ac.jp/organization/sakurai_g/english/index.html

Name:	Takunori Taira (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	Laser Research Center for Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science
Research fields:	Solid-State Laser, Nonlinear Optics, Laser Physics
Research subjects:	Micro Solid-State Photonics
Lab URL:	http://www.nins.jp/english/index.html

Department of Astronomical Science / National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka

Organization website: http://www.soken.ac.jp/en/academics/astronomical.html

Name:	Nobuo Arimoto (Professor)
Affiliation:	Department of Astronomical Science, Graduate University for Advanced Studies(SOKENDAI) National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
Research fields:	Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Research subjects:	Evolution of High-z Early Type Galaxies, Chemical Evolution and Stellar Population Synthesis of Galaxies, Galactic Archaeology, Star Formation History of Nearby Galaxies, Globular Cluster Systems of Elliptical / SO Galaxies, Chemical Evolution, Spectral Syntheses, Impact of Nearby Supernovae to Extinct Plants and Animals
Lab URL:	http://optik2.mtk.nao.ac.jp/~arimoto/top.html

Name:	Noriyuki Kawaguchi (Professor)
Affiliation:	Mizusawa VERA Observatory
Research fields:	Radio Astronomy
Research subjects:	Observing Instrumentation
Lab URL:	http://veraserver.mtk.nao.ac.jp/evlbi/

Name:	Ryohei Kawabe (Professor)
Affiliation:	Nobeyama Radio Observatory, NAOJ
Research fields:	Radio Astronomy
Research subjects:	Star and Planet Formation, Star formation in nearby galaxies, & High-z Universe
Lab URL:	http://www.nro.nao.ac.jp/index.html

Name:	Kohji Tomisaka (Professor)
Affiliation:	National Astronomical Observatory
Research fields:	Simulation Astrophysics
Research subjects:	Interstellar Matter, Star Formation
Lab URL:	http://th.nao.ac.jp/~tomisaka/Tomisaka_E.html

Name:	Seiji Kawamura (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	NAOJ
Research fields:	Gravitational wave astronomy
Research subjects:	Experiment for detecting gravitational waves using a laser interferometer
Lab URL:	http://tamago.mtk.nao.ac.jp/

Name:	Tadayuki Kodama (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	Division of Optical and IR Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan / Department of Astronomical Science, Sokendai
Research fields:	Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
Research subjects:	Star formation history, mass assembly history, large scale structure, cluster of galaxies, environmental effect, spectral synthesis
Lab URL:

Name:	Takashi Sekii (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	NAOJ
Research fields:	Solar Physics
Research subjects:	Helioseismology
Lab URL:	http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/helioseismology/

Name:	Hideo Hanada (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	RISE Project / NAOJ
Research fields:	Planetary Geodesy
Research subjects:	Internal structure of the Earth, Moon and Planets. Moon and planet exprolation.
Lab URL:	http://www.miz.nao.ac.jp/RISE/intro/index.html.en

Name:	Masatoshi Ohishi (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	NAOJ Associate Professor
Research fields:	Radio astronomy and Databased astronomy
Research subjects:	Astrochemistry, Astrobiology, Virtual Observatory
Lab URL:	http://jvo.nao.ac.jp/index-e.html

Name:	Wako Aoki (Assistant Professor)
Affiliation:	National Astronomical Observatory
Research fields:	Stellar physics
Research subjects:	Nucleosynthesis in early generation stars chemical enrichment in the Galaxy
Lab URL:	http://subarutelescope.org/

Department of Informatics / National Institute of Informatics, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Organization website: http://www.soken.ac.jp/en/academics/informatics.html

Name:	Zhenjiang Hu (Professor)
Affiliation:	Information Systems Architecture Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
Research fields:	Programming Languages, Functional Programming, Software Engineering
Research subjects:	Bidirectional / Inverse Computation, High-level Parallel Programming and Automatic Parallelization, Program Transformation
Lab URL:	http://research.nii.ac.jp/~hu/

Name:	Hideaki Takeda (Professor)
Affiliation:	The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (National Institute of Informatics)
Research fields:	Artificial Intelligence, Web Engineering
Research subjects:	Semantic Web
Lab URL:	http://www-kasm.nii.ac.jp/

Name:	Tetsunari Inamura (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	National Institute of Informatics
Research fields:	Intelligent Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction
Research subjects:	Intelligent Robots, Cognitive Developmental Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Learning by Demonstration, Symbolization of sensorimotor patterns, Social Intelliget Robot Simulator.
Lab URL:	http://www.iir.nii.ac.jp/index-e.html

Name:	Asanobu Kitamoto (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
Research fields:	Image Processing, Image Databases and Content-Based Image Retrieval, Earth Environmental Information Processing, Digital Cultural Archives
Research subjects:	Time series image analysis of field sensors at a cabbage farm (A subject of 2008 JSPS summer program)
Lab URL:	http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/~kitamoto/ http://www.digital-typhoon.org/ http://front.eye.tc/ http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/

Name:	Makoto Kanazawa (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	National Institute of Informatics
Research fields:	Mathematical Logic, Theoretical Computer Science, Theoretical Linguistics
Research subjects:	Formal Language Theory, Parsing, Lambda Calculus, Natural Language Semantics
Lab URL:	http://research.nii.ac.jp/~kanazawa/

Department of Genetics / National Institute of Genetics, Mishima

Organization website: http://www.soken.ac.jp/en/academics/genetics.html

Name:	Takashi Gojobori (Professor)
Affiliation:	National Institute of Genetics
Research fields:	Molecular Biology, Evolution
Research subjects:	Evolution of nervous system, Bioinformatics
Lab URL:	http://www.cib.nig.ac.jp/dda/home-j.html

Department of Basic Biology / National Institute of Basic Biology, Okazaki

Organization website: http://www.soken.ac.jp/en/academics/basic.html

Name:	Kiyoshi Naruse (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	Department of Basic Biology, School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai)
Research fields:	Genetics, Comparative  genomics, Genome evolution, Fish biology
Research subjects:	Our laboratory has conducted a comparative and functional genomic analysis focusing mainly on fish chromosomes and gene evolution using medaka and other fishes. Positional cloning of causal gene of novel medaka mutants. QTL analysis of common variation among medaka inbred lines
Lab URL:	http://www.nibb.ac.jp/en/sections/naruse.html

Department of Physiological Sciences/National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki

Organization website: http://www.soken.ac.jp/en/academics/physiological.html

Name:	Ryusuke Kakigi (Professor)
Affiliation:	Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Research fields:	Neuroscience, Neurology
Research subjects:	Sensory perception, mainly pain and itch, Face perception
Lab URL:	http://www.nips.ac.jp/smf/

Name:	Yoshihiro Kubo (Professor)
Affiliation:	Division of Biophysics and Neurobiology, Department of Molecular Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Research fields:	Molecular Physiology, Biophysics, Neuroscience, (Oocyte two electrode voltage clamp, HEK293 cell patch clamp, Ca2+ imaging, TIRF-FRET analysis, knock-in mice behavioral analysis)
Research subjects:	Structure-function relationship and functional regulation of ion channels and receptors (ATP receptor channel P2X2, KCNQ channel, metabotropic glutamate receptor, Prestin)
Lab URL:	http://www.nips.ac.jp/eng/contents/publication/guide/html/2008/res/molecular.html#c http://www.nips.ac.jp/biophys/

Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, Hayama

Organization website: http://www.soken.ac.jp/en/academics/evolutBiosystems.html

Name:	Kentaro Arikawa ( Professor)
Affiliation:	Sokendai at Hayama
Research fields:	Neuroethology, Sensory physiology
Research subjects:	We are studying mechanism and evolution of color vision in insects, mainly using butterflies as the model system. The spectrum of our experimental methods includes neurophysiology, anatomy (LM & EM), molecular biology, behavioral analysis, opto-physiology and simulation
Lab URL:	http://www.sendou.soken.ac.jp/esb/arikawa/index.htm

Name:	Yoko Satta (Professor)
Affiliation:	The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems
Research fields:	Evolutionary Physiology (Molecular Evolution)
Research subjects:	Gene Expression pattern difference in several tissue between chimpanzee and human
Lab URL:	http://www.sendou.soken.ac.jp/esb/satta/index_e.html http://www.esb.soken.ac.jp/staff/satta.html

Name:	Hideyuki Tanabe (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems School of Advanced Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai)
Research fields:	Molecular Cytogenetics, Molecular Cell Biology
Research subjects:	Studies on the chromosome territory positioning and nuclear architecture by 3D-FISH and visualization techniques
Lab URL:	http://www.esb.soken.ac.jp/

Name:	Kenji Ito (Associate Professor)
Affiliation:	The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Research fields:	History of science and technology, science and technology studies
Research subjects:	History of physical sciences and technology in modern and contemporary Japan; social studies of science and technology
Lab URL:	http://www.esb.soken.ac.jp/staff/ito.html

Name:	Nobuyuki Kutsukake (Assistant Professor)
Affiliation:	Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), PRESTO researcher
Research fields:	Behavioural ecology, ethology, evolutionary ecology, primatology, comparative cognitive science
Research subjects:	I have been interested in understanding both ultimate and proximate aspects of animal behaviour, particularly social behaviour in both wild and captive mammals (carnivores, rodents, and primates).
Lab URL:	http://homepage2.nifty.com/fauves/index_E.htm