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Admission application guidelines are now available
Type of Selection
- April 2022 (Second Admission) /October 2022 Admission (General Selection / Transfer Admission into 3rd year)
- Campus Special Admissions, Joining the Program in April 2022 (General Selection / Transfer Admission into 3rd year)
Application Period
November 1 to November 12, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. (JST)
Application Guidelines
Application Guidelines (PDF: 0.9MB)
Prescribed Form
General Selection(Word)
Transfer Admission into 3rd year (Word)
Online Application
Online Application System
*Available only during the application period
*All the applicants are required to register/log in to UCARO (Admission examination portal site)
English tutorial videos for UCARO are available here.
Other Information
Frequently Asked Questions
Student Support
Admission Information Video
■ Contents
Program Overview, Entrance Examination, Q&A
Contact
Taoyaka Program Office, Hiroshima University
E-mail: apply[a]taoyaka.hiroshima-u.ac.jp *Please replace [a] with @.
Announcement of Final Successful Applicants
TAOYAKA Program announce the applicants’ numbers of those who passed the following entrance examinations.
October 2021 Admission (Second Admission)
General Selection (Five-year course)
October2021 Admission (Second Admission)
Transfer Admission into 3rd year
List of successful applicants’ numbers (PDF)
*Telephone/E-mail inquiries about the announcement will not be answered.
*Successful applicants will receive an e-mail about admission procedures.
(July 30) The 176th Taoyaka Program Seminar will be held
The 176th Taoyaka Program Seminar will be held as follows. Admission free.
Pre-registration will be needed. If you want to attend the seminar, please send your email address to the Moderator or Taoyaka Program Office. Feel free to join the seminar.
■ Date: Friday, July 30, 2021 13:30-15:30
■ Venue：Online (Zoom)
■ Theme：From Gifts to Cryptocurrencies; An Introduction to Anthropological Theories of Money
■ Lecturer：Dr. Hirokazu MIYAZAKI, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA,
Professor (Special Appointment), Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University
■ Moderator：Dr. Koki Seki, Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University
■ Language: English
(July 5) The 175th Taoyaka Program Seminar will be held
The 175th Taoyaka Program Seminar will be held on July 5th.
In this seminar, Dr. Pieter J. Fourie will talk under the theme of Integrated, data-driven urban design and agent-based mobility simulation.
We hope many of you attend the webinar.
■ Date: Monday, July 5, 18:00-19:00, (JST)
■ Theme : Integrated, data-driven urban design and agent-based mobility simulation
■ Speaker:Dr. Pieter J. Fourie, Ex-researcher at National Institute for Environmental Studies
■ Language: English
■ Venue: Online (Zoom)
https://zoom.us/j/97092866556?pwd=NjBTU0E1N1hPYXpOQVg2R1MwT2dtUT09
Meeting ID: 970 9286 6556
Passcord: 456856
■ Abstract
Urban planning and design is an expensive, intricate process requiring coordination across many disciplines. It is risky, resulting in buildings and infrastructure costing millions to construct and maintain, both in terms of dollars and hours consumed and tons of CO2 produced. Planners need to produce a complex, interwoven dynamic system; deciding not only where and when to put static elements like buildings, gutters, sidewalks and roads, but also to make educated inferences about the numbers and kinds of people and goods the system will produce and attract, the means of connection between them and the rules to govern it all. Urban planning aims to synthesise and integrate many competing requirements but suffers from the five ‘i’s that are its ruin: influence, inertia, illiteracy, inconsistency and interference1.Influence, interference and illiteracy respectively represent external pressures: money, power and public backlash from lack of transparency, understanding and participation. What remains are endogenous threats: the inertia of disciplinary silos and slow adoption of new technologies, and inconsistency of, e.g. zoning decisions or suitability of infrastructure for emerging modes of mobility. Urban planning is path-dependent. Making the right decisions early in the process will have a profound impact on its outcome: as the plan passes through more hands, it becomes harder and more expensive to change and re-iterate earlier steps. But those early decision-makers frequently have very little decision support and are instead forced to rely on experience, intuition and rules-of-thumb.
12th International Workshop (Team 15)
- Title: Mitarai from the Eyes of Residents (Memory, Image, Arts, and the Future)
- Date & Time: 14:00-16:00 (JST) Friday March 30, 2021
- Venue: Zoom
Registration page:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlceyprTspGdPeZcySY7v7JfsI7A0mURkS
Program Schedule:
13:50 Zoom meeting open
14:00 Opening and introduction
14:15 Team 15 Presentation
14:45 Invited Speaker Talk 1
15:00 Invited Speaker Talk 2
15:15 Q&A and Discussion
15.50 Closing remark
Taoyaka Program completion ceremony was held
Taoyaka Program completion ceremony was held on March 23rd and 3 students were celebrated by their friends, faculty members and staff on their accomplishment and their completion of the program.
Professor Fujiwara, program coordinator, encouraged the graduating students to take an active role in the society as a global leader from now on. He also extended respect for them for the efforts and hard work they put in the program especially in this past year when their research activities were greatly affected by COVID-19.
We wish them all the best in their future endeavors.
Higashi-Hiroshima Autono-MaaS Consortium Smart Campus Initiatives in Hiroshima was held
On Wednesday, March 10, 2021, Higashi-Hiroshima Autono-MaaS Consortium held a symposium, Smart Campus Initiatives in Hiroshima, co-hosted by the Higashi-Hiroshima City, Hiroshima University, Town & Gown Office Higashi-Hiroshima and Taoyaka Program.
This symposium invited experts from Japan and abroad to share the impact of advanced technologies such as autonomous driving and smart energy toward the development of sustainable communities.
The event started with an opening remarks by the President of Hiroshima University, followed by a congratulatory speech of a Mayor of Higashi-Hiroshima. During the consortium, the speakers introduced their experiments in transportation system or energy problems in different places from different academic perspectives. These problems are important issues to develop sustainable communities.
Active discussions were held among the speakers and the discussants. There were approximately 200 participants in the consortium.
Admission application guidelines are now available
Type of Selection
- October 2021 (Second Admission)/April 2022 Admission (General Selection / Transfer Admission into 3rd year)
- Campus Special Admissions, Joining the Program in October 2021 (General Selection / Transfer Admission into 3rd year)
Application Period
May 10 to May 21, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. (JST)
Application Guidelines
Application Guidelines (PDF: 1.15MB)
Prescribed Form
General Selection(Word)
Transfer Admission into 3rd year (Word)
Online Application
Online Application System
*Available only during the application period
*All the applicants are required to register/log in to UCARO (Admission examination portal site)
English tutorial videos for UCARO are available here.
Other Information
Frequently Asked Questions
Student Support
Admission Information Video
■ Contents
Program Overview, Entrance Examination, Q&A
Contact
Taoyaka Program Office, Hiroshima University
E-mail: apply[a]taoyaka.hiroshima-u.ac.jp *Please replace [a] with @.
(March. 10) Higashi-Hiroshima Autono-MaaS Consortium
Smart Campus Initiatives in Hiroshima
Toward the development of sustainable communities, the challenges revolve around accessible transportation systems and clean energy are crucial issues to be solved and are also vigorously researched in academia through research study and demonstration experiments conducted from various approaches in various places.
In March 2021, Hiroshima University will also initiate a demonstration experiment of MaaS (Mobility as a Service), which is an efficient and accessible transportation system using the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) or AI, in cooperation with Higashi-Hiroshima City, Izumi Co., Ltd., and MONET Technologies Inc.
In this symposium, experts from Japan and overseas will talk about the prospects of advanced technologies brought to our research and lives such as autonomous driving and smart energy to get a glimpse of our future.
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 13:00 – 16:50 (JST)
Venue: Hiroshima University (Capacity of 30 audiences) and Online live streaming
Language: Japanese and English (Simultaneous translation provided)
Intended audience: Faculties, Students, General audience
Participation fee: Free of charge (Online pre-registration is required)
Organizer: Higashi-Hiroshima Autono-MaaS Consortium
Co-host: Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima City, Town & Gown office Higashi-Hiroshima, TAOYAKA Program
Program
| 13:00 | Opening Remarks Mitsuo Ochi, President, Hiroshima University |
| 13:05 | Congratulatory Speech Hironori Takagaki, Mayor of Higashi-Hiroshima City |
| 13:10 | Project Overview Akimasa Fujiwara, Vice President (Academy of Hiroshima University), Hiroshima University |
| 13:25 | Keynote Lecture “Autonomous Driving using Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM)” Edwin Olson, CEO and Co-Founder of May Mobility, Inc. Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan |
| 14:15 | Mobility Innovation Yoshihide Shibao, Representative Director and COO, MONET Technologies Inc. |
| 15:05 | Smart City Initiatives at Haneda Innovation City and Future Prospects Atsushi Kato, General Manager of Project Department of Real Estate Development Division, KAJIMA CORPORATION |
| 15:45 | Carbon Neutral × Smart Campus 5.0 Declaration Masamichi Takase, Manager, Energy Service Team, Zero Emission Business Dept., SUMITOMO CORPORATION |
| 16:25 | Sustainable University Town Driven by Academic Enterprise Model Shinji Kaneko, Vice President (Global Initiatives), Hiroshima University |
| 16:45 | Closing Remarks Shinichi Tate, Executive Vice President (Research and Academia-Government-Community Collaboration), Hiroshima University |
Online Registration
Contact
TAOYAKA Program Office, Hiroshima University
email：taoyaka-program*office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp (Please replace * with @.)