Science Tokyo Academic Affairs News (August 2025 issue)

1. [Science and Engineering] Cutoff of power and water supplies throughout Ookayama Campus
Power and water supplies will be cut off throughout Ookayama Campus
Dates and Times
From 9:00 to 18:00 on Saturday, August 9 /From 9:00 to 18:00 on Sunday, August 10
Reserve dates and Times
From 9:00 to 18:00 on Saturday, August 30 /From 9:00 to 18:00 on Sunday, August 31
(If the inspection is canceled due to rain, it will be conducted on the reserve days.)

There will be no power outage at International House and Midorigaoka House.
For further details, visit the following link.
Notice of power outage throughout Ookayama Campus

2. Summer holidays at the Institute
The Institute will be closed on Tuesday, August 12 and Wednesday, August 13.
As a general rule, students are not allowed on campus from Tuesday, August 12 to Wednesday, August 13.

3. The automatic certificate issuance machines
Automated certificate issuance machines are going to be suspended during the next period.　
- [Ookayama campus and Suzukakedai campus]
Suspension period:
From 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 8 to 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 14
From Monday, September 22 to 10:00 a.m. on Friday, September 26
- [Yushima campus and Konodai campus]
Suspension period:
From 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 8 to 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 14

4. Closure of Education Planning Department (Ookayama, Suzukakedai, Yushima and Kounodai)
The Education Planning Department will be closed from Tuesday, August 12 to Wednesday, August 13.
The office in Ookayama will be also closed on Wednesday, August 6, due to Open Campus 2025.

5. [Science and Engineering] Procedures for Fall Graduation
Students who will graduate in this September have to answer a questionnaire on the Web System for Students & Faculty to confirm their name written on their diploma.
Please check an email from the Student Division to the relevant students.

6. [Science and Engineering] "Pre-registration" of Humanities and Social Science Courses in 3Q and 4Q 2025
Undergraduate students and master's program students who are planning to take Humanities and Social Science courses（course numbers starting with LAH) in 3Q and 4Q are advised to apply through "pre-registration" on the Web System for Students and Faculty prior to the course registration period.

There are many courses for which the number of applicants reaches full capacity by pre-registration. Be sure to pre-register if you plan to take any Humanities and Social Science courses.

- Pre-registration period : Early September
- Notification of the results : Late September
- Target courses : 100, 200, 400 and 500 level courses (except for 300 level courses)

Details will be announced by email sent from "lah.yoyaku@ila.isct.ac.jp" address according to target courses. Please check emails sent from the Institute during summer break.
For the latest information and details of pre-registration, please refer to the "Pre-registration" page of the "Website of Humanities and Social Science Courses".
- For Master's program students of fall (September) 2025 admission, registration instructions will be given at the time of enrollment procedure.

(1) Entrepreneurship Courses and Workshops offered by ToTAL
Regardless of whether you are an undergraduate or a graduate student, students in the science & engineering fields may register for entrepreneurship courses that consist of a combination of various workshops to earn credits, or apply to join a single workshop. The following are a few of the courses to be offered in 3-4Q and information on one of its briefing sessions. We encourage students to take these courses!
*Credits and points will not be granted to students in the medical & dental fields, but those students are also welcome to participate in individual workshops.
[Details]

(a) <Briefing sessions on "Programming Boot Camp" to be held in 3-4Q >
-Date and time*:
[Day 1] Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
[Day 2] Thursday, August 7, 2025, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
[Day 3] Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
*The contents are the same for all 3 sessions.
-Venue: S6-309B, Ookayama Campus and online
-Outline: Programming Boot Camp is a 4-day workshop which participating students propose a web application that they want to make in their team and intensively develop the application over 4 days with support by professionals. Students with any level of programming skill is welcome to join. Training classes on no-code tools and API development will be provided in advance to students who wish to take, so everyone from beginners to experienced students in programming can enjoy the program. Join a briefing session to learn more!
-Details and application

(b) <3-4Q Professionals and Value Creation B/D Courses: Thinking about entrepreneurship with DNX Ventures> (An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time:
Thursdays, October 30, November 6, November 13, November 20, December 4, December 11, and December 18 in the next semester (All classes from 5:30 p.m. - 7:10 p.m.)
-Venue: Ookayama Campus (Lecture room to be decided)
-Outline: This program is full of contents related to entrepreneurship with a focus on “startups”, including learning about the mechanisms of companies, the significance of launching new businesses, and the challenges faced by corporate organizations, regardless of whether they are large corporations or startups. In some sessions, you will listen to lectures by entrepreneurs who passionately share their real-life experiences and engage in discussions with them. Whether you are interested in starting a business or not, this course will help you understand the essence of business. These insights will provide you with a broad range of knowledge and options, regardless of the field you choose to pursue in the future. We highly recommend enrolling in this course.
-Details and application

[Contact] Academy for Leadership (ToTAL) Office
e-mail: total@adm.isct.ac.jp

1. ## [Call for students] Registration in Fall 2025 ##
Academy of Super Smart Society (WISE-SSS) will accept applications for those who wish to enroll in this program in Fall 2025.

Notice: This will be the final opportunity to enroll in WISE-SSS.

[Important] For Master's Students and Academic Supervisors:
In principle, students entering the doctoral program in April 2026 or later are expected to leave WISE-SSS upon entering the doctoral course and join the Graduate Major in Super Smart Society to complete the equivalent curriculum.

For further details, please refer to here

Application period: 22 July 2025 (Tue.) - 5 August 2025 (Tue.) at noon

Application guideline

Student Interview

*** WISE Program for Super Smart Society ***
The program's objective is to help students develop competence and skills they will need to become "knowledge professionals" ("super PhDs"), integrating physical space technologies with cyberspace technologies as well as combining advanced sciences and technologies, such as quantum science and artificial intelligence.
Academy of Super Smart Society (WISE-SSS)

Contact: Office of Academy of Super Smart Society
E-mail: wise-sss@jim.titech.ac.jp

2. SSS Online Education

(1) On-Demand Classes of SSS Innovation　*Applicable to Entrepreneurship (GA0M)
3Q [SSS.S404] A4: Frontiers in Smart Workplaces
Lecturers: Mitsubishi Estate Company, Limited, MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corporation, ASAHI KASEI CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI ESTATE, Azbil Corporation, ITOKI CORPORATION

4Q [SSS.S407] A7：Quantum Science and Technology Close at Hand
Lecturers: Toshiba Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Hitachi, Ltd, TOPPAN Holdings Inc

-Registration Period
-Evaluation: Based on the students' comments on the lecture assignments and/or the discussion between the students and the lecturer.

(2) Free On-Demand Course

"Programming for beginners: Learning basics with computer Shogi"

Introduction to the Super Smart Society

Contact: Online Education, Academy of Super Smart Society
E-mail: sss-online@wise-sss.titech.ac.jp

Academy of Energy and Informatics

1. AY2025 Additional ISE adult students will be recruited.
[ Application period: Aug.1-Sept.5, 5:00pm, 2025 ]
Additional recruitment ISE Associate-member Students (Adult students)

2. for Science Tokyo students and faculty ISE Special Lecture [Language: English]

We are so pleased to announce the Special Lecture hosted by the Academy of Energy and Informatics. This year, we will invite the pioneer for Deep Tech in Japan, Dr. Yoshiyuki Sankai, who is the Professor of University of Tsukuba and President and CEO of CYBERDYNE Inc. His speech will cover the technology on "Wearable Cyborg (TM)" and entrepreneurial experience when researchers in academia start the business based on their leading edge technology. Do not miss this rare opportunity to dramatically increase the value of your research.

Invited Speaker: Yoshiyuki SANKAI
* Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan
* Executive Research Director of Center for Cybernics Research, University of Tsukuba, Japan
* President and CEO of CYBERDYNE Inc.
* Program Director of SIP (Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program), Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
Title: Pioneering the Future through the new frontier "Cybernics"
- Fusion of HCPS, Sci-Tech Innovation, Creation of New Industries, Global Collaboration -
Date : Wed. 27 August, 2025
Time : 16:00-17:30
Venue: Ookayama Campus, West Bld. 9., Digital Multi Purpose Hall
Registration: to ISE Website

ISE management operation office
Email: management_office@infosyenergy.isct.ac.jp

1. [Course to be offered in 3-4Q: Pre-registration now open!] Thinking about Entrepreneurship with DNX Ventures (ENT.V202 Bachelor's Fundamental Group Work for Value Creation B)

A full-fledged Entrepreneurship Course will start in the next semester.

This program "Thinking about Entrepreneurship with DNX Ventures" is full of contents related to "entrepreneurship to create new values and set them in society" with a focus on "startups". The program consists of lectures by entrepreneurs who will passionately share their real experiences of how they started their businesses. They will not just teach about the "how-to's" but also share what their goals are and what they thought about when they started their business.

Mr. Akira Kurabayashi, Head of Japan, and Mr. Yoshiki Shiraishi, Partner, of DNX Ventures, a venture capital firm that has made many investments and fostered startups in Japan and the U.S., are invited as lecturers for this program, and provide full cooperation in the structure and contents for all seven sessions. Through this program, students will be able to understand the reality of entrepreneurship to “develop and create new value,” which is the goal of the entrepreneurship education of this university, and will be able to understand the essence of business for those who are interested in start-ups as well as those who are not. These will give you a wide range of knowledge and options for your future career, regardless of which field you choose to pursue. The program forms the core of the university’s entrepreneurship education.

At the Center for Entrepreneurship Education, we strongly encourage students to take the course.

-Course: ENT.V202 Bachelor's Fundamental Group Work for Value Creation B (0-1-0)
-Date and main topics:
-Class 1: Thursday, October 30; Capitalism and purpose management
-Class 2: Thursday, November 6; Lecture & discussion with a guest entrepreneur (1)
Guest speaker: Takeo Inada, Representative Director and CEO, Andpad Inc.
-Class 3: Thursday, November 13; Methodology for starting a business -DNX Studio-
-Class 4: Thursday, November 20; Startup funding and VC evaluation
-Class 5: Thursday, December 4; Lecture & discussion with a guest entrepreneur (2)
Guest speaker: Takashi Nakagawa, Representative Director and CEO, Kakehashi Inc.
-Class 6: Thursday, December 11; Governance Theory
-Class 7: Thursday, December 18; Collaboration between startups and large corporations
All classes from 5:30 p.m. - 7:10 p.m.
-Venue: Ookayama Campus (Lecture room to be decided)
-Language: Japanese
-Lecturers: Akira Kurabayashi (Managing Partner/Head of Japan, DNX Ventures), Yoshiki Shiraishi (Partner, DNX Ventures)
(Reference) DNX Ventures website

-Details
-Pre-register HERE*
*Students in the science and engineering fields who wish to enroll in a course must register for ENT.V202 Bachelor's Fundamental Group Work for Value Creation B from the Kyomu Web System during the course registration period.
-Flyer

[Contact] Leadership and Innovation Section, Center for Entrepreneurship Education
e-mail: lead_innov_edu@cee.isct.ac.jp