Department of Civil Engineering

The University of Tokyo

Hongo Campus

The goal of the International Graduate Program in the field of Civil Engineering and Infrastructure Studies at
the Department of Civil Engineering is to prepare its graduating students to become future international leaders
in the field of infrastructure technology design, planning, disaster mitigation, and environmental management.
Involvement in key projects in various academic fields and industries provide students with crucial experience
and skills needed for developing and integrating the competencies necessary for participation on an international
level in our expanding global world. Since 1982, the Department of Civil Engineering has been offering this
program, and more than 680 international students from 60 different countries have graduated.

The department has encouraged international graduate students to be policy makers in central and regional
governments, leaders in international organizations, specialists in infrastructure planning, scientists in
universities and institutes in their own home countries, as well as in J apan. Our alumni consequently have been
appointed to prominent positions at prestigious universities and institutes, the governments of home countries,
and renowned companies around the world. This program provides the opportunities to work in global and
diverse academic contexts, access our network with more than 680 global alumni, and be involved in
international collaboration.
INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE PROGRAM
Campus Life of International Students








































Cross-Communicative Human Network
Dormitories for international students
Housing
Getting Around
There are cafeterias open
for everybody. They sell
such things as box-meals,
stuffed rice ball, sandwiches
and drinks. There are also
many restaurants, coffee
shop that serve meals, and
bento vendors.
Eating
The department has set up
effective support systems
provided by FSO, J apanese
language classes, technical
English class and the Civil
Host Family Program for
assisting international students
in adjusting to the social life
inside and outside of the
university. Activities include
multi-cultural understanding
workshops, J apanese and
English speech contests,
educational trips to Kanda
river and Kunosan Temple,
welcome parties, sports
festivals, the International
Friday Lounge, host family
parties, and so on.
Sports Festival Hanami (Sakura viewing)
Tea Ceremony
Japanese Cultural Exchange
Lion dance Welcome Party
Department of Civil
Engineering Library
Gymnasium
&
Stadium
Shopping/Sightseeing

The Department of Civil Engineering has been offering the International Graduate Program since 1982 and
more than 680 international students completed the graduate degree program. 80 percent of our alumni were
from Asian countries, and others were from
other continents. In average, 20 percent
students are from countries, where the
Chinese characters are generally used for
communications.
In our department, 95 percent of lectures
and research supervisions are provided in
English, which creates global academic
environment to attract many international
students from all over the world to our
program.
Outstanding academic performances by
our international students and alumni are
also highly evaluated. Our alumni, who reached the age of mid-40s after 20 years of graduation, have been
appointed as global leaders to prominent positions at prestigious universities and institutes, the governments of
home countries, and renowned companies around the world. In the past 3 years, 309 research papers were
written by our alumni and 25 awards were received among them. Among 108 alumni, 78 are employed in home
and other countries, 30 are in J apan. As of J anuary 2010, eleven alumni are now working as lecturers and
research associates in our department.











Civil Engineering Alumni Network Welcome ceremony hosted by the president

Civil Engineering Alumni Network (CEAN), cross-accessible alumni network system, has been found to
strengthen the alumni network and encourage wider-range of communication between our alumni in all over the
world.




Faculty Members and Their Research Fields
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), traffic safety
measures and their evaluation, urban transport
planning
Regional Planning and Surveying
Urban and Historical Geography, Regional and Urban
Planning
Takashi OGUCHI
Professor
Traffic Engineering
Remote sensing of environment and disaster
Traffic Management and Control, Highway Capacity,
Traffic Operation and Control, Geometric Design,
Driving Behavior
Yoshi hi de SEKIMOTO
Project Associate Professor
Mobile sensing,
Infrastructure data management
Harutoshi YAMADA
Project Professor
2012.4Revised
Yoz o FUJINO
Professor
Take shi ISHIHARA
Professor
Tomonori NAGAYAMA
Assistant Professor
Koi chi MAEKAWA
Professor
Toshi haru KISHI
Professor
Te tsuya ISHIDA
Associate Professor
Ryosuke SHIBAZAKI
Professor
Haruo SAWADA
Professor
Ke i YOSHIMURA
AssociateProfessor
Yuki ko HIRABAYASHI
Associate Professor
Tai kan OKI
Professor
River and Environmental Engineering
Hydrology, Water Resources, Satellite Remote
Sensing, Climate Change, Asian Monsoon
Global Monitoring for Ecology and Environment,
River Basin Management with RS and GIS
Kaz uo OKI
Assistant Professor
Shi nta SETO
Assistant Professor
Tsunamis and Storm Surges,Ocean Sciences,Wind
Waves,Historical Earthquakes
Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering
Isotope meteorology, land surface processes,
dynamical downscaling
Taro UCHIMURA
Associate Professor
Hai ji ang LIU
Associate Professor
River Engineering, River Morphology, River
Restoration, Ecosystem Management in a River
Basin
Hydrology, Water Resources, Climate Change
Take yoshi CHIBANA
Associate Professor
Yoshi mi tsu TAJIMA
Associate Professor
Yoshi nobu TSUJI
Associate Professor
Toshi o KOIKE
Professor
Remote Sensing of Hydrological Cycle and Its
Application into Water Resources Management and
Disaster Prevention
Coastal morphodynamics, Nearshore processes,
Coastal geology, Remote sensing
Global hydrology and Climate Change, World Water
Resources and Virtual Water Trade,
Wateerfootprint, IWRM in Monsoon Asia
Coastal hydrodynamics, protections and beach
topography changes
Laboratory Soil Test, Long-term Behaviour of
Buried Structure, Ground Cave-in, Ground
Improvement using Microbes
Re i ko KUWANO
Associate Professor
Shi nji SATO
Professor
Coastal Engineering
Coastal processes and sediment transport, Waves
and currents, Beach erosion control, Coastal
structures
Ikuo TOWHATA
Professor
Juni chi KOSEKI
Professor
Soil Mechanics,Soil Dynamics, Slope,
LiquefactionAgeing of soil, Waste Mechanics
Geotechnical Engineering, Landslide Mitigation and
Monitoring, Ground Improvement, Earthquake
Engineering
Bridge and Structure
Bridges, Dynamics, control and monitoring, Wind
and earthquake effects on structures, bridge
maintenance and management
Wind Engineering, Wind Energy, Typhoon Disaster
Mitigation, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Structural
Dynamics
Seismic Stability of Retaining Walls, Deformation
Properties of Geomaterials, Liquefaction, Ground
Improvement
Concrete Engineering
Mechanics of Reinforced Concrete, Thermo-hygro
Physics of Cementitious Composites, Life-span
Assessment
Geotechnical Engineering
Material Science of Concrete, Self-healing
Concrete, Permeability, Pore Structure, Expansive
Concrete, Durability of RC Structures
Nonlinear mechanics of aging concrete, Modeling of
durability performance,
Microbiology of composting
Kohe i NAGAI
Associate Professor
Health Monitoring of Infrastructure, Wireless
Sensor Network, Structural
Dynamics
Concrete Engineering, Meso scale analysis, Fiber
reinforced cementitious composite Wataru TAKEUCHI
Associate Professor
Regional Plannning with Spatial Information
Engineering, Image Analysis, GIS, 3D Visualization
Spatial Information
Urban and People Sensing, GIS, Digital Landscape
Modeling with Remote Sensing,
Applied Remote Sensing and GIS, Global
Environment and Disaster Monitoring, International
Project Management
Ei han SHIMIZU
Professor
Takashi FUSE
Associate Professor
Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transportation
Policies
Traffic Operation and Management, Parking
Management, Traffic Simulation, ITS
Transportation Engineering and Infrastructure Planning
Regional and Urban Planning, Tourism Promotion,
Transportation Planning, Infrastructure
Management, Traffic Engineering
Hi roshi MAKINO
Associate Professor
Shi nji TANAKA
Assistant Professor
Hi toshi IEDA
Professor
Transportation Planning, Traffic Engineering,
Transportation Psychology, Behavior Analysis
International Project
Methodology for resolution of social issues,
Social aspects of radioactive waste disposal,
Water services development
Earthquake Engineering, Mathematical Sociology,
Disaster Mitigation
Ki i chi ro HATOYAMA
Assistant Professor
Hi de yuki HORII
Professor
Ri ki HONDA
Associate Professor
Transportation Planning, Transportation Policy
Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Engineering
Total Disaster Management Strategy, Structural
and non-structural Countermeasures for Disaster
Reduction
Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Engineering,
Integrated Disaster Management Engineering
Hi ronori KATO
Associate Professor
Ki mi ro MEGURO
Professor
Mi ho OHARA
Associate Professor
Earthquake Engineering, Geotechnical Earthquake
Engineering, Rehabilitation strategies
Informatic & Computational Mechanics, Earthquake
Engineering
Computational Engineering and Science,
Earthquake Engineering
Takashi KIYOTA
Associate Professor
Kaz uo KONAGAI
Professor
Mune o HORI
Professor
Tsuyoshi ICHIMURA
Associate Professor
Landscape Planning and Design
Yu NAKAI
Professor
Civic design, Landscape design, Civil engineering
history
Construction Management /Infrastructure Systems
Kaz umasa OZAWA
Professor
Project Management, Public Procurement,
Infrastructure Management,
Training Program for Project Managers
Pe tr MATOUS
Project Lecturer
Social Network Analysis, Infrastructure &
Technology Management, International
Development
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Landslide
Mitigation, Liquefaction, Geological Survey
Earthquake Engineering


Our society and life greatly depend on the urban space. Under the recent growing urbanization on a global
scale, many cities have various problems and are exposed to the danger of disappearance. Three departments at
School of Engineering, Civil Engineering, Urban Engineering, and Architecture, launched Global Center of
Excellence for Sustainable Urban Regeneration in 2008 in order to play a main role in the field of urban space
by integrating and systemizing academic structures for sustainable urban development across academic borders.
Our social capital is constituted by
the natural environment, the built
environment, and the social
environment. GCOE is composed of
four groups, three of which
correspond to these aspects of social
capital: Environmental Management,
Urban Stock Management and Social
Information. The fourth group is an
implementation group, Integrated
Planning and Design, which organizes
and integrates the knowledge
developed by the three research-based
groups. In addition, new cross-cutting
research teams, identified during the
21COE, are formed, such as
Vulnerable Urban Space, Eco-Urban
Space, Urban Space Cultural Strategy
and Urban Space Governance. Website at http://csur.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_en.html
GCOE plans to extend the international research network from the existing Asia-centered network to one
which is fully global, involving the appointment of overseas research fellows, the creation of the International
Association of Sustainable Urban Development, and the expansion of the graduate course program in
Sustainable Urban Development to the doctoral level.

Real world sensing together with
subsequent decision-making and
feedback offers the greater safety
and security of the society.
The multi-scale modeling of concrete
is investigated as a systematic
knowledge base and life-span
simulator of infrastructures.
Toward sound decision making on
water resources management and
harmonization between nature and
human beings.
Global COE (Centers of Excellence) Program


Japanese language is not required!
Lectures and research supervision are given in English. You do not need to learn J apanese language for
your academic life. Of course, if you are interested in learning it, J apanese Language classes are provided
for international students.
Enroll the degree program immediately!
You will be enrolled as a full-time graduate student immediately after arrival in J apan and thus can earn a
degree within two years for Masters and three years for Doctoral degree.
Huge numbers of international students!
Currently over 90 international students from more than 20 countries are studying at the department,
which is almost comparable to the number of J apanese graduate students of Civil Engineering. Entering
this program will give you a special opportunity to study with not only J apanese students but also students
from all over the world.
Full scholarship support!
Scholarships for 26 students are provided every year on average.
The J apanese government, Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, Sports and Technology (MEXT)
Asian Development Bank (ADB-J SP)
Study environment with supporting staff!
More than 50 faculty members in the Department of Civil Engineering will support your study and
research, as well as your campus life.
Japanese Language Classes provide beginners courses by professional instructors.
Foreign Student Office (FSO) will support your office procedures and campus life.
Tutor (senior graduate student staffs) will help each of you to start up your campus life.
Host Family Program provides you with opportunities to find a J apanese host family.
Support from the University of Tokyo!
The University of Tokyo also offers various services to support the international students, such as visa
consultation, career support and so on.










J apanese speech contest Lecture
Unique Characteristics of the Program


The Department of Civil Engineering has established a screening committee to ensure all the
applicants fair treatment for evaluations and decisions concerning all admission matters. Selection is
made according to qualification based on submitted document at the screening committee. The
applicant may specify the preferred professor(s), however, the named individual will not make the
decision of admission.
The Foreign Student Office (FSO) administrates application procedures on behalf of each faculty
member for the Department of Civil Engineering.
The Department expects students to concentrate on their research/study, and therefore the Department
will prefer qualified students with sufficient financial source, i.e. the scholarship.

















(1) Scholarship with the Department Recommendation
The Department of Civil Engineering will nominate qualified candidates and recommend them to partner
scholarship organizations as listed below. Approximately 26 seats in total will be allocated every year.
Application due: November 30th for following October intake
1. The Japanese Government - MEXT-University
2. Asian Development Bank - ADB-JSP

(2) Scholarship with an Embassy Recommendation (MEXT-Embassy)
The Department of Civil Engineering will accept the MEXT scholarship recipient(s). This application
details should be inquired at the Embassy of J apan in your home country. The internal procedure for this
scholarship is mentioned on the School of Engineering website at
http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/etpage/international_applicants/applying_through_J E.html .

(3) Scholarship other than MEXT/ADB
The Department of Civil Engineering will also accept recipients of scholarships other than
MEXT/ADB-J SP.

(4) Entrance Exam Program
For further information on the entrance examination, please send e-mail to gs@civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Operation Principle of the Program
How to Apply
Scholarship w./ Department
Recommendation see below (1)
OUTSIDE
of JAPAN
Civil
Scholarship
Program
Scholarship w./ Embassy
Recommendation see below (2)
Place you are
presently
living/staying
Scholarship w./ other than the
above see below (3)
INSIDE
of JAPAN
Entrance
Exam
Program
see below (4)



How do I obtain an application for admission or program information?
The Department of Civil Engineering has not produced a printed prospectus since J anuary 2004. You
will find admission information on our website at http://www-e.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ or you may
contact the Foreign Student Office (FSO) at fso@civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

What are the application documents for Civil Scholarship Program?
a. Department-specific application form
b. Two Department-specific letters of recommendation forms
c. Official Transcript(s) and diploma(s) ***
d. Official letter of graduation guarantee for on-going students
e. English Proficiency
f. Summary of Master thesis, other papers, or books (Doctoral degree applicants only)
*** Photocopies must contain an original certified stamp on each page.

Applicants for Entrance Examination Program should send e-mail to gs@civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp for
further information.

Can I apply on-line?
No. Hard papers of complete applications and relevant documents should be sent to FSO only via
postal mail. Applications sent via fax or e-mail will not be accepted.

What will happen if I submit my application past due date?
No application will be considered if it reaches FSO office after the due date (November 30 for the
following October intake).

How do I find out the result of my application?
Admission decision will be announced on the website, and the address will be informed on the
acknowledgement e-mail for the receipt of your application.


Do you have distance learning for your doctoral and masters programs?
No. The Department of Civil Engineering does not offer distant learning program.





Frequently Asked Questions
Contact
For more information, visit our website at http://www-e.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
or contact the following address.
Foreign Student Office (FSO)
Department of Civil Engineering
The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656 J apan
e-mail: fso@civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
2012.04.01