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
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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

2026/09/11	Updated the researcher profile page of Asst. Prof. HUANG Lang
2026/09/09	Updated the researcher profile page of Asst. Prof. CHEN, Chung Chi
2026/09/08	2nd call of 2026 "NII International Internship Program"
2026/09/02	KISTI Researchers Visit NII for Joint Workshop
2026/08/25	Breakthrough in High-Speed Data Transfer Accelerates the Realization of SRCNet, the World's Largest Scientific Data Infrastructure
2026/08/18	Nearly 4 Million Japanese Research Outputs Integrated into OpenAlex: Collaboration with NII's IRDB Dramatically Improves the Global Discoverability of Research from Japanese Institutional Repositories.
2026/08/16	Asst. Prof. KUROIWA Ryo was awarded the Best Reviewer Award at the 19th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS)
2026/07/31	Professor Kawarabayashi Attends ACM Awards Banquet, Featured in "People of ACM"
2026/07/30	Online Learning Materials to Support Research Data Analysis - Facilitating the Use of GakuNin RDM Data Analysis Functions-
2026/07/22	20 Papers by National Institute of Informatics Researchers Accepted at ACL 2026, the Top Conference in Natural Language Processing
2026/07/21	Asst. Prof. KUROIWA Ryo was awarded the ACP Doctoral Research Award (Honorable Mention)
2026/07/10	NII initiates the Global FileSender trial service and supports FileSender development
2026/07/07	A paper by Miyu Oba (Former Research Assistant, Sugawara Lab, Nara Institute of Science and Technology) and Assistant Professor Saku Sugawara was awarded the ACL 2026 Outstanding Paper Award
2026/07/07	A paper by Yusuke Yamauchi (Research Assistant, Aizawa Lab, Former Joint Graduate Student, The University of Tokyo) and Professor Akiko Aizawa was awarded as ACL 2026 Best Theme Paper
2026/07/02	NII Concludes a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and BharatGen Technology Foundation on the Research and Development of Large Language Models
2026/06/30	PR magazine "NII Today No.107(EN)" was published
2026/06/22	Visit to NII by the delegation from Brazil whose representative is Mr. Daniel Guimarães, President of the Brazilian Institute of Public Administration (IBAP)
2026/05/27	A paper by Project Professor Katsumi Inoue and his team was selected as a Best Paper Nominee at AAMAS 2026
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)

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NII Today No.107(EN)

NII Today No.107(EN)

Summary of NII 2026

NII Today No.106(EN)

NII Today No.105(EN)

NII Today No.104(EN)

NII Today No.103(EN)

NII Today No.102(EN)

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

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