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2011-2000
2011
| April 2011 |
- The Center for Research and Development of Educational Technology (Research and Service Centers) was reorganized into the Center for Research and Development of Educational Technology (Common Facilities).
The TITECH Earth Database Center was established.
The ICE Cube Center was established.
The Centennial Hall was reorganized into The Museum, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Conclusion of operations at the Center for Advanced Materials Analysis
Academy for Global Leadership was established
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| January 2011 |
- The Center for Liberal Arts was established.
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2010
| November 2010 |
- The Research Center for Low Temperature Physics (Research and Service Centers) was reorganized into the Research Center for Low Temperature Physics (Common Facilities).
The Organization for Life Design and Engineering was established.Conclusion of operations at the Strategic Management Office
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| October 2010 |
- The Energy Conservation Promotion Office was established.
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| April 2010 |
- The Microsystem Research Center was reorganized into the Photonics Integration System Research Center affiliated to the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory.
The International Nuclear Research Cooperation Center affiliated to the Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors was established.
The Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory affiliated to the Graduate School of Science and Engineering was reorganized into the Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory.
The Frontier Research Center was reorganized.
The Solutions Research Laboratory was established.
The Research Center for Carbon Recycling and Energy (Research and Service Centers) was reorganized into the Research Center for Carbon Recycling and Energy (Common Facilities).
The Advanced Education Research Center was established.
The Osmotic Power Research Center was established. Conclusion of operations at the Large-scale Knowledge Resources Center.
The Integrated Research Institute was reorganized.
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2009
| November 2009 |
- The Multidisciplinary Research Center For Energy Science was reorganized into the Inter-departmental Organization for Environment and Energy.
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| August 2009 |
- The Research Project Support Center was established.
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| May 2009 |
- The University Management Center was established.
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| April 2009 |
- The Multidisciplinary Research Center For Energy Science was established. The Career Advancement Professional School was established. The Tokyo Tech Archive Initiative was established.
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| March 2009 |
- The Tokyo Tech Front was established.
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2008
| November 2008 |
- The Center for CompView Research and Education was established.
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| July 2008 |
- The Gender Equality Center was established. The Productive Leader Incubation Platform was established.
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| May 2008 |
- The Asia-Africa Biology Research Center was established.
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| April 2008 |
- The Secure Device Research Center affiliated to the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory was established. The Photovoltaics Research Center was established. The Inter-departmental Organization for Informatics was established.
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2007
| November 2007 |
- The Frontier Collaborative Research Center, the 80th Anniversary Center for Research Admission Office, the Venture Business Laboratory and the Incubation Center were merged into the new Frontier Research Center.
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| October 2007 |
- The Information Infrastructure Management Office was established. The Center for Public Relations and Coordination was reorganized into the Center for Public Information and the Center for University Communications and Coordination.
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| April 2007 |
- The new Admission Office was established. The Technical Department was established.
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2006
| December 2006 |
- The Center for Photonic Nano-Device Integrated Engineering was established.
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| July 2006 |
- The Global Edge Institute was established.
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| April 2006 |
- The Center for Materials Design affiliated to the Materials and Structures Laboratory was reorganized into the Secure Materials Center affiliated to the Materials and Structures Laboratory. The Super-Mechano Systems R&D Center, the Student Services Center, and the Center for the Study of World Civilizations were established.
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| January 2006 |
- The Center for Research into Innovative Nuclear Energy Systems was established.
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2005
| October 2005 |
- The Integrated Research Institute was established.
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| September 2005 |
- The Emerging Nanomaterial Research Center was established.
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| April 2005 |
- The Graduate School of Innovation Management was established. The Technical High School attached to the School of Engineering was reorganized into the Tokyo Tech High School of Science and Technology. The Center for Research in Advanced Financial Technology was reorganized. The large-scale Knowledge Resource Center, the Research Center for Nanometer-Scale Quantum Physics, the Bio-Frontier Research Center, the Center on Agent Based Social Systems Sciences, the Center For Molecular Science and Technology, the Research Center for the Evolving Earth and Planets, the Research Center for the Science of Institutional Management of Technology were established. Also established was the Collaboration Center for Design and Manufacturing（CODAMA）.
- Department of Information Processing and Department of Advanced Applied Electronics, both in the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, were integrated and reorganized into the Department of Electronics and Applied Physics and the new Department of Information Processing.
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2004
| April 2004 |
- Tokyo Institute of Technology was reestablished as an independent administrative institution with the name "National University Corporation Tokyo Institute of Technology."
- The Research Center for Quantum Effect Electronics was reorganized into the Quantum Nanoelectronics Research Center. The Planning Office and the Financial Management Office were established.
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2003
| September 2003 |
- The Center for Urban Earthquake Engineering was established. The Office of Industry Liaison was established.
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| May 2003 |
- The Educational Planning Office was established.
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| April 2003 |
- The Research and Development Center for Educational Facilities was reorganized into the Research Center for Educational Facilities. The Gene Research Center, the Research Center for Experimental Biology, and the Radioisotope Research Center were integrated into the Center for Biological Resources and Informatics.
The Department of Precision Machinery Systems was renamed the Department of Mechano-Micro Engineering.
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2002
| October 2002 |
- The General Safety Management Center and the Center for Public Relations and Coordination were established.
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| April 2002 |
- The Research Center for Carbon Recycling and Utilization was reorganized into the Research Center for Carbon Recycling and Energy.
The Evaluation Office and the International Planning Office were established.
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2001
| May 2001 |
- The Nagatsuta campus has been renamed the "Suzukakedai" campus.
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| April 2001 |
- The Computer Center and the International Cooperation Center for Science and Technology were reorganized into the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center. The Research Center for Very Low Temperature System was reorganized into the Research Center for Low Temperature Physics.
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2000
| April 2000 |
- The Kusatu-Shirane Volcano Observatory was reorganized into the Volcanic Fluid Research Center.
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1999-1980
1999
| April 1999 |
- The Center for Research in Advanced Financial Technology was established.
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1998
| April 1998 |
- The Center for Research Cooperation and Information Exchange was reorganized into the Frontier Collaborative Research Center.
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1997
| April 1997 |
- The Radioisotope Research Center was established.
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1996
| May 1996 |
- The Foreign Language Research and Teaching Center was established. The Research Laboratory of Engineering Materials was reorganized to the Materials and Structures Laboratory.
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| April 1996 |
- The Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology was established.
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1994
| June 1994 |
- The Education Center for Foreign Students was reorganized into the International Student Center. The Research Center for Quantum Effect Electronics was established. The Research Center for Experimental Biology was established.
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| April 1994 |
- The Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering was established.
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1993
| April 1993 |
- The Research Center for Educational Facilities was reorganized into the Research and Development Center for Educational Facilities.
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1992
| April 1992 |
- The Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology was established on the Nagatsuta Campus. The Research Center for Carbon Recycling and Utilization was established.
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1991
| April 1991 |
- The Experimental Center for Very Low Temperature and Energy Technique established in 1981 was reorganized into the Research Center for Very Low Temperature System.
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1990
| June 1990 |
- The School of Bioscience and Biotechnology was established on the Nagatsuta Campus.
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1989
| May 1989 |
- The Gene Research Center was established in Ookayama (later it moved to the Suzukakedai campus).
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1988
| April 1988 |
- The Education Center for Foreign Students was established. Also the Kusatsu-Shirane Volcano Observatory was established.
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1983
| April 1983 |
- The Research Center for Educational Facilities was established.
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1982
| April 1982 |
- The Center for Research Cooperation and Information Exchange was established.
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1979-1881
1979
| April 1979 |
- The International Cooperation Center for Science and Technology was established.
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1976
| May 1976 |
- The Computer Center was established.
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1975
| April 1975 |
- The Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering was established at Nagatsuta Campus (now called the Suzukakedai campus).
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1971
| April 1971 |
- The Health Service Center was established.
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1967
| June 1967 |
- The School of Science and Engineering was divided into the School of Science and the School of Engineering. Tokyo Tech's affiliated high school, the Technical High School, became attached to the School of Engineering.
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1964
| April 1964 |
- The Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors was established.
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1958
| March 1958 |
- The Research Laboratory of Building Materials and Research Laboratory of Ceramic Industry were integrated and reorganized into the Research Laboratory of Engineering Materials.
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1956
| April 1956 |
- The Graduate School of Engineering was renamed the Graduate School of Science and Engineering.
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1955
| July 1955 |
- The School of Engineering was renamed the School of Science and Engineering.
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1954
| April 1954 |
- Tokyo Tech's six Research Laboratories: the Research Laboratory of Building Materials, the Research Laboratory of Resources Utilization, the Research Laboratory of Precision Machinery, the Research Laboratory of Ceramic Industry, the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and the Research Laboratory of Fuel Science, which were established in 1934, 1939, 1939, 1943, 1944, and 1944, respectively, were integrated and reorganized into four research laboratories: the Research Laboratory of Building Materials, the Research Laboratory of Resources Utilization, the Precision and Intelligence Laboratory and the Research Laboratory of Ceramic Industry.
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1953
| April 1953 |
- The Graduate School of Engineering was established.
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1951
| April 1951 |
- The former Denpa Kogei High School and Kogei High School of Chiba University were integrated into Technical High School, an affiliated high school, to the Institute.
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1949
| May 1949 |
- The enactment of the National School Establishment Law promoted the reorganization of Tokyo Institute of Technology so as to comply with the nation's education system reform, extending its three-year course into four years and establishing the School of Engineering within the university.
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1929
| April 1929 |
- The status of Tokyo Higher Technical School was elevated to a degree-conferring University as Tokyo Kogyo Daigaku (Tokyo Institute of Technology).
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1924
| 1924 |
- Tokyo Higher Technical School was moved from Kuramae to the present site at Ookayama.
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1901
| May 1901 |
- Tokyo Technical School was renamed Tokyo Higher Technical School.
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1890
| March 1890 |
- Tokyo Vocational School was renamed Tokyo Technical School.
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1881
| May 1881 |
- Tokyo Institute of Technology was founded by the Japanese Government, Department of Education, as the Tokyo Vocational School.
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