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| Yamagata University |
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Yamagata University is made up of six departments (Humanities, Education, Science, Engineering, Agriculture, and Medicine) and six graduate research courses. It is a university with 9,500 students, and, as a base for development of Yamagata as a “knowledge frontier,” it carries out everything from basic to applied research. Graduates have gone on to make excellent contributions both within Japan and overseas in areas including industry, economics, education and medicine. Research in cooperation with the government and private industries flourishes. The “Regional Cooperative Research Center,” which aims to promote collaborative research with private organizations, and the “Venture Business Laboratory,” which aims to nurture entrepreneurs and promote project-based research and development, are both connected with the university. |
| Tohoku University of Art and Design |
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This university is divided into the School of Art, the School of Design, and one graduate research institute. There are about 2,000 students. The university aims to educate people who will earnestly strive toward creation and design that makes use of a high-level special expertise and a wide range of general knowledge, while opening up new territories of creativity that will bring us into the 21st century in the midst of our own regional history and bountiful natural environment. The “General Research Center” has been established in order to promote interaction and cooperation with regional culture and industry, and is active in carrying out collaborative and commissioned research. |
| Tohoku University of Community Service and Science |
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This university, unique throughout Japan, specializes in the improvement of society through the study of community service. Community service aims to help a wide range of people and companies, for the good of society as a whole. Crossing over the traditional framework of social studies, humanities and the sciences, the university strives to generalize and systematize community service as a new field from the standpoint of a making a contribution to society. In addition, the university aims to carve out new territory from the viewpoint of community service, research, and form new theories relating to the activities of individuals as well as companies and other organizations. |
| Yamagata Research Institute of Technology |
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This organization's purpose is to increase the technological standards of the manufacturing industry as a whole in Yamagata Prefecture. The center, in order to meet the various needs of many businesses, carries out technological guidance, technological consultation, research and development, training of technicians, delivery of information and commissioned research in many areas, including machinery, electronics, metals and metalworking, chemistry, ceramics, alcohol brewing, textiles, knitwear, woodworking and design. |
| Yamagata Prefecture High Technology Research and Development Center |
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As an institute centered around cooperative research and development between industry, the academy and the private sector, the center is home to the Industry-Academic- Government Sector Cooperate Research and Development project. In addition to carrying out high-level, cutting edge, creative research, the center support is open to businesses throughout the prefecture, supporting the improvement of research and development capabilities by developing research exchange centers and analysis machinery. The center is promoting the strengthening of collaboration between Industry, educational institutions and the administration, based on Yamagata's special research and development theme of “Life Support Technology.” |
| Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences |
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This institute aims to become a stronghold in the world of “Information Technology-Based Bioscience.” It is a full-scale research center, possessing experiment groups in areas such as metabolic engineering, analytical chemistry and genetic engineering. It is hoped that exhaustive measurement and gathering and computer simulation of biological data such as intercellular metabolic material and computer modeling of cells using the newest information technology will be applicable in manufacturing and medicine. Yamagata Prefecture is centering its efforts to become a bio-industry hotspot around this institute. |
| Shinjo Biomass Center |
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With the deepening of environmental problems, the use of natural energy is being reconsidered. Biomass is garnering a particularly high amount of attention. At the Biomass center, highly sophisticated fermented fertilizer is produced from branches and other parts of fruit trees on the premises. This fertilizer is used to cultivate sweat sorghum which can be used to produce ethanol. Ethanol functions as a fuel for automobiles, and the carbon dioxide produced is absorbed by the fruit trees. We are striving to further develop this “circulatory model”. |
