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

2026/01/15	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
2025/12/11	Academic Employment Opportunities at the NII, Research and Development Center for Large Language Models (LLMC), Project Researcher (Specified fixed-term employment)
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
2025/12/03	UCL (University College London) visited NII
2025/11/14	A paper by Asst. Prof. KUROIWA Ryo was awarded as Outstanding Dissertation Award (Hornourable Mention) at ICAPS 2025
2025/10/31	Overview of National Institute of Informatics 2025 was published
2025/10/27	A paper by Takanori Jin , Assistant Professor Taisuke Kobayashi and his team was awarded as the Advanced Robotics Excellent Paper Award at the 13th Advanced Robotics Paper Awards
2025/10/15	DFKI（German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) visited NII
2025/10/15	President from DAAD visited NII
2025/09/05	2nd call of 2025 "NII International Internship Program"
2025/08/13	A paper by Asst. Prof. KUROIWA Ryo and his team was awarded as Best Technical Paper Award at CP 2025
2025/07/07	A paper by Takashi Ikegami and Professor Ichiro Satoh was awarded as Best Paper Award of ISAmI 2025
2025/07/02	Poster Data from the Demo and Poster Session at the NII Open House 2025 Now Available Online
2025/06/16	Visit of Fábio Porto, Head of the AI Institute at the National Laboratory of Scientific Computing　 (LNCC) in Brazil
2025/06/12	A paper by Professor Shin'ichi Satoh and his team was awarded as Best Paper Award of Workshop on CVsports at CVPR 2025
2025/06/02	Summary of National Institute of Informatics 2025 was published

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SPECIAL

NII Today No.105(EN)

Overview of NII 2025

Summary of NII 2024

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