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
Information about Fellowship Japan with your images 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 Research Results
Progress in Informatics NII Technical Reports
Service

Network
SINET6
Research Data Cloud
GakuNin RDM JAIRO Cloud CiNii Research CiNii Books CiNii Dissertations IRDB
Authentication Infrastracture
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

2025/05/01	PR magazine "NII Today No.104(EN)" was published
2025/04/08	Prof. ECHIZEN Isao and YAMAGISHI Junichi of NII and Prof. BABAGUCHI Noboru of FUT win the Award for Science and Technology (Research Category) - The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of MEXT 2025-
2025/04/03	A paper by Hanh Le (NII Internship student), Project Researcher Padipat Sitkrongwong, Visiting Lecturer Panagiotis Andriotis, Prof. TAKASU Atsuhiro and others was awarded as Best Paper Award of SAC2025
2025/04/01	Upgrade of International Communication Lines of the Science Information NETwork SINET6 - Ultra-high-speed network connecting Japan, the US, and Europe to reach 400 Gbps -
2025/02/19	Computer Vision Enhances the Potential of Ultrabroadband Imaging in Non-destructive Testing A New Approach Using Carbon nanotube tomography & visual-hull
2025/02/14	1st call of 2025 "NII International Internship Program"
2025/01/16	Prof. KAWARABAYASHI Ken-ichi won the Humboldt Research Award at Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
2025/01/14	The research team of Prof. Shin'ichi Satoh and others won the Best Overall VBS System and the Best Expert VBS System at Multimedia Modeling 2025
2025/01/08	Academic Employment Opportunities at the NII, Echizen Laboratory, Project Researcher (Specified fixed-term employment, Postdoctoral Fellow)
2025/01/08	Academic Employment Opportunities at the NII, Sugawara Laboratory, Project Researcher (Specified fixed-term employment, Postdoctoral Fellow)
2025/01/06	Academic Employment Opportunities at the NII, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, Yamagishi Lab, Project Researcher (Specified fixed-term employment, Postdoctoral Fellow)
2024/12/24	A Fully Open Large Language Model with Approximately 172 Billion Parameters (GPT-3 Level): "llm-jp-3-172b-instruct3" Now Publicly Available - Achieving Performance Beyond GPT-3.5 -
2024/12/17	Updated the researcher profile page of Assoc. Prof. ANDRES Frederic
2024/12/04	The research team of Prof. Ichiro Hasuo and others won the Best Paper Award at ICTAC 2024
2024/11/28	Updated the researcher profile page of Prof. KOIBUCHI Michihiro
2024/11/15	Updated the researcher profile page of Assoc. Prof. KOMIYAMA Yusuke
2024/11/15	Release of LLM-jp-3 172B beta2
2024/11/06	Head of Department of Information and Engineering(DINFO) of University of Florence visited NII
2024/10/21	CiNii Research automatic translation function trial version launched - Making it possible for users who do not understand Japanese to search for Japanese papers -
2024/10/18	Overview of National Institute of Informatics 2024 was published

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NII Today No.104(EN)

NII Today No.103(EN)

Overview of NII 2024

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