National Institute of Informatics

About NII

Introduction
Greeting from the Director-General Mission & Strategies
Overview of NII
History Administrative Council Organization Charts Intellectual Properties Staff / Budget Outline and Catalogue of National Institute of Informatics PR Video
International Exchange
International Exchange based on MOU Conclusion of International Exchange Agreements or MOUs NII International advanced lectures series on ICT NII Shonan Meeting

Global Liaison Office (GLO) - DAAD
Alumni
NII Library
NII Library Usage Guide(For General Public) NII Library Accessing databases via GakuNin
International Seminar House for Advanced Studies Advanced ICT Center Publications
NII Today
PR Video

Recruitment Access
National Institute of Informatics (National Center of Sciences) Kashiwa Annex International Seminar House
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Research

Research Divisions Research Centers
Research and Development Center for Academic Networks Research Center for Knowledge Media and Content Science Research Center for Community Knowledge Center for Cloud Research and Development Center for Dataset Sharing and Collaborative Research Center for Strategic Cyber Resilience Research and Development Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform Center for Research Data Ecosystem Development Center for Trust & Digital Identity Research and Development Global Research Center for Quantum Information Science Global Research Center for Big Data Mathematics Research Center for Mathematical Trust in Software and Systems Research Center for Medical Bigdata Global Research Center for Synthetic Media Research and Development Center for Large Language Models Center for Advanced Mobile Driven Research

Faculty
Director-General Executives(related to research) Principles of Informatics Research Division Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division Information and Society Research Division Directory of Faculty and Staff index Professor Emeritus
Major Project Involvement Kakenhi Human Resource Development
Top SE Experts in Information Science Quantum Technology Education:A New Approach
Collaborative Research Promotion Collaboration with Industry, Government, and Academia Innovation Produced by Knowledge Research Results
Progress in Informatics NII Technical Reports
Service

Network
SINET6
Research Data Cloud
GakuNin RDM JAIRO Cloud CiNii Research CiNii Books IRDB
Authentication Infrastructure
GakuNin eduroam JP UPKI Notice of Authentication Service Maintenance

Cloud
GakuNin Cloud GakuNin Cloud Adoption Support Service GakuNin Cloud Gateway Service GakuNin Cloud On-Demand Configuration Service SINETStream
Information Security
NII Security Operation Collaboration Services (NII-SOCS) Princess Rinrin's information security column
Scholarly Communication
NACSIS-CAT/ILL E-resources Data Sharing Services KAKEN NII-REO

Collaboration
Collaboration with University Libraries Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources Future Scholarly Information Systems Committee Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository SPARC Japan Research Data Ecosystem Development Project to Promote the Use of AI HPCI mdx Academic Information Infrastructure Open Forum
Human Resource Development
GakuNin LMS Education and Training Services NII JMOOC | gacco Experts in Information Science Computer Science Park
Graduate Program

News

News

2026/04/27	Special Lecture by Professor Akinori Yonezawa [Event Report]
2026/04/16	Signing Ceremony for the Renewal of the Agreement for the Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics (JFLI)
2026/04/07	Ryoko Sekiwa (SOKENDAI, Shigaki Lab) was awarded the Best Robot Demonstration Award at the RoboSoft 2026 Workshop
2026/04/03	Release of New Japanese LLMs, "LLM-jp-4 8B" and "LLM-jp-4 32B-A3B", Trained on a High-Quality Corpus of Approximately 12 Trillion Tokens under an Open-Source License Surpassing GPT-4o and Qwen3-8B on Several Standard Benchmarks
2026/04/01	Summary of National Institute of Informatics 2026 was published
2026/03/19	Professor Isao Echizen receives the 58th Ichimura Prize in Science for Excellent Achievement
2026/03/19	NII RDC Launches New Features to Accelerate Immediate Open Access Promoting Research Dissemination and Streamlining Library Support Operations
2026/03/17	Doctoral Degree Commemoration Medal Presentation Ceremony and NII Inose Student Award Ceremony Held for SOKENDAI Informatics Program
2026/03/10	New Insect-Inspired Robot Tracks Odors Even with Only One Working "Antenna" Promising for disaster relief and emergency.
2026/03/03	Release of the Japan Open Science Monitor β - Visualizing the Progress of Open Science in Japan -
2026/03/03	PR magazine "NII Today No.106(EN)" was published
2026/02/20	1st call of 2026 "NII International Internship Program"
2026/02/13	Strengthening Europe - Japan Digital Gateway with Polar Connect
2026/01/22	Prof. KAWARABAYASHI Ken-ichi Selected as a 2025 ACM Fellow
2026/01/15	A paper by Kazuki Watanabe (at NII & SOKENDAI) and one other was awarded as Best Student Paper Award of 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)
2025/12/18	NII, NTT, and NTT EAST Achieve World's First Successful Demonstration of Rapid Optical Wavelength-Path Switching and Addition Through Automated Optical Transport Layer Control Based on Network Conditions
2025/12/15	Director General Sadao Kurohashi Selected as an ACL Fellow 2025
2025/12/11	Director of DAAD Section ST43 (Fellowships for Artificial Intelligence) visited NII
2025/12/08	PR magazine "NII Today No.105(EN)" was published
2025/12/03	INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) visited NII

SPECIAL

Summary of NII 2026

NII Today No.106(EN)

NII Today No.105(EN)

NII Today No.104(EN)

NII Today No.103(EN)

Guidance of Informatics Program, SOKENDAI 24-25

NII Today No.102(EN)

SINETStream Use Case: Mobile Animal Laboratory [Bio-Innovation Research Center, Tokushima Univ.]

The National Institute of Information Basic Principles of Respect for LGBTQ