edX Courses
This course is in succession to the TokyoTechX "Basic Japanese Civil Law," which covered legal concepts common to many countries, such as sovereignty, constitution, separation of three powers, basic human rights, and personal safety. This course considers current issues in Japan, such as those faced in daily life from a legal perspective based upon laws and related methods. This course teaches Japanese civil law in more detail related to contemporary problems. The course starts with a review of the civil code and covers canceling of contracts, intellectual property, internet-related legal issues, cashless transactions, bankruptcy, torts, and protection of the elderly.
This course is designed to help you navigate through your journey in graduate school at the Japanese university of your dreams and beyond. The course will introduce you to universities in different regions of Japan and discuss what sets Japanese graduate education apart from the rest of the world. You will also be guided through the application process and necessary decision-making when planning for your stay in Japan. Finally, you will be given some post-graduation career insights.
You will learn how to identify and solve every day ethical issues in engineering, science and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This course will also introduces Aspirational Ethics. Ethical concepts are taught by bringing in authentic case-studies, for example, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant incident in 2011 and NASA Challenger explosion.
This course covers the legal system and basic concepts of Japanese Civil Law, starting with the study of concepts that are common in many countries, such as, basic human rights, and personal security. It also covers current issues in Japan, for example, those faced in daily life from a legal perspective based upon laws and related practices. The relationship between law and contemporary Japanese culture and society will be discussed which then you can compare it to the law of other countries.
Have you ever been intrigued about design details and structural components that go into creating a visually appealing building? After all, beauty need not be compromised to ensure strength. Let's find out how earthquake resilient structures are designed to be elegant and strong. Modern approaches to seismic design and retrofit will also be covered through case studies of some unique campus buildings in Tokyo.
Computations are what computers, including those utilizing Artificial Intelligent algorithms, are actually doing. Learn about the basic and key concepts of computer science while experiencing how to program and design “computational algorithms.” The course offers an introduction to computer science including writing simple programs using the language Ruby. The course lectures are in Japanese.
A computation can be a basic operation or a sophisticated computer simulation requiring a large amount of data and substantial resources. This course aims at introducing learners with no prior knowledge to basics and key concepts of computer science. You will learn about algorithms and practice what you learned by programming using the language Ruby.
In this course, you will be introduced to the representative methodology called DEMO (Design & Engineering Methodology for Organizations) in Enterprise Ontology. You will have a better understanding of the concept and learn how to apply it to the targeted systems with a certain size. The concepts are taught using primarily using the DEMO-3 system and referenced to DEMO-4.
This course introduces fundamental topics in electrical and electronic engineering including a broad range of examples. You will learn about solar cells (batteries), portable cell phones, actual applications from Japanese corporate engineers, including the high-speed railway, plus advanced research being performed at high-tech laboratories in Japan. The topics covered range from introductory materials to fundamental research and applications.
The "Super Smart Society," a future society in which unmanned tractors plow vast fields, automated buses and trucks transport people and goods, and avatar robots provide nursing care, is just around the corner. In this course, you will learn about cutting edge research on how researchers are tackling social issues and providing solutions through scientific and technological innovation toward the realization of the Super Smart Society.
Learn the basics of programming and various techniques of coding with computer Shogi. The course uses "MT Shogi", a Shogi program that runs on MATLAB. You will learn fundamental concepts of programming through easy-to-understand explanations on the key points of "MT Shogi".
This course is designed for beginners to learn about line tracing, the first technology need for autonomous driving, using virtual experiments. MATLAB, which is necessary to run the simulations in the course, is available free of charge during the course, through the generosity of Mathworks.
Science Tokyo Campus Online Courses
(Science Tokyo students only)
Introduction to Electrical Engineering
The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Science Tokyo created this course for high school students and college freshmen. The lectures were originally offered in Japanese but were dubbed into English. It covers familiar topics such as solar cells, linear motor car and advanced water processing utilizing plasma to cutting edge topics such as next generation motor by magnetic levitation, novel electronic device, electronic material and ultra-high-speed wireless data transfer. Let’s explore Electrical and Electronic Engineering topics with Science Tokyo Professors and an animated teaching assistant!
Science Tokyo Science, Engineering, AI & Data Ethics
Learn both traditional and aspirational ethics to utilize your science and engineering expertise to improve human well-being. This course is a modified version of the edX MOOC on Science and Engineering Ethics, which was released in 2017 in Japanese. This online course in English and Japanese contains new quizzes and materials on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Ethics, including case studies on ethical issues in developing self-driving cars, AI related health care decision making, and water pollution, etc. To the original course a new section was added on Artificial Intelligence and Data Ethics. The course was updated in 2021 and several new sections were added including a lecture on AI for Social Good.
OCRD TA training course
This course trains new OCRD TAs in online course development team and how to use learning analytics. The new course development section teaches how to create courses using the edX platform. Learning analytics training focuses on course quality improvements through data analysis utilizing natural language processing etc. Various scripts and tools developed by TAs for open edX and YouTube are also introduced.
Workshop on Tatara Iron-Making
In 1881, Science Tokyo was founded as a vocational high school to educate engineers aiming to revitalize Japan through the development of industries. As part of it education legacy, Science Tokyo previously taught students traditional steel-making in a lab using a Tatara furnace and taught knife making by sword-making craftsmen. Video lectures in this online course are offered to teach the history and process of traditional Japanese steel making, traditional blacksmith, and safety concerns of the Tatara steel making process.
Archived Courses
Autophagy: Research Behind the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals and applications of autophagy, the fascinating degradation process that occurs in the cells of all living organisms. Autophagy in the bases for the 2016 Nobel Prize awarded to Science Tokyo's Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi based upon his research with yeast. It will provide you with an insight into an exciting and continually evolving field at the cutting-edge of fundamental biology research. Professor Ohsumi makes opening and closing remarks for young researchers.
Modern Japanese Architecture Part 1: From Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
Explore traditional Japanese architecture and related political influences starting with the introduction of Western building styles in the 19th century to the influence of Le Corbusier in the mid-20th century. This course aims to illustrate the present state of Japanese Modernist and postmodern building, as well as the distance covered over the past 150 years, including the 130-year history of Science Tokyo itself.
Introduction to
Deep Earth Science
This course is an introduction to earth science, focusing on the deep earth. You will learn how temperature and chemical compositions inside the Earth are inferred from limited observations combined with laboratory experiments. You will also explore the fate of water on the early Earth related to advanced research questions. Upon finishing this course, you will learn how scientists interpret the unknown and use the scientific method to address immeasurable research challenges.