• Integrity Control and Evaluation of Machines and structures

    Selected for NEDO Project

    Development of non-destructive inspection, on-line monitoring, and damage tolerance technologies to ensure the integrity of high-pressure hydrogen containers for innovative low-cost fuel cell vehicles” has been selected as a theme of the “Development of Advanced Technologies for Hydrogen Utilization” in NEDO’s “Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration R&D Project for Solving Common Problems Toward Dramatic Expansion of Fuel Cell …

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    Visit to Tokyo University of the Arts

    Mr. Ashizawa and I visited Prof. Kamekawa and Prof. Marui’s laboratory at Tokyo University of the Arts by the introduction of Mr. Ashizawa, a doctoral student. We were able to see the facilities that are not available at Tokyo Tech, such as the one shown in the photo, and also had a demonstration of 22.2ch …

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    Madrid, Spain

    I will be traveling from Granada, Spain to Portoroz, Slovenia. I met up with Prof. A, who was visiting Politecnico de Madrid, and Prof. F of Politecnico de Madrid, who had once been a visiting professor at Tokyo Tech, and we went out for drinks.

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    Visit to University of Granada + welcome party

    I am here at Prof. Antolino’s laboratory at the University of Granada. On the first day of my arrival in Granada, I had a welcome party with faculty members, researchers, students and their families and friends. I am very happy. Dr. Franc has also stayed at Tokyo Tech as an associate visiting young researcher few …

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    Cultural Experience

    Dr. Todoroki, a short-term foreign student from France, two doctoral students from our laboratory, and I came to Izakaya @ Kanda to listen to Tsugaru shamisen. Two professors from other universities were also joined. The master of the Izakaya is a wine lover, a certified sommelier, and speaks fluent French.

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    Dissertation Defense at Delft University of Technology

    I was invited to the degree examination of a doctoral student at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) as a judge. During the question and answer session, I was a little puzzled by some of the rules that do not apply to degree examinations in Japan, such as the need to say a spell-like phrase …

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