Tokyo Institute of Technology

摘要

Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) is Japan's premier science and technology research university. Established in 1881 as the Tokyo Vocational School, the institute currently has approximately 1,200 faculty, 10,000 students, and an annual revenue of 46.7 billion Yen (US$445 million). Tokyo Tech's strengths include physics, material science, earth sciences, and computer science. Its internationally acknowledged contributions to science and technology include the early transmission of an image via a cathode ray tube by Kenjiro Takayanagi in 1926; the 1967 invention of electrically conductive plastic by Hideki Shirakawa (awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for this research); and deployment of Tsubame 1.0 in 2006, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world at the time.