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History
The Tokyo Institute of Technology is one of the oldest engineering universities in Japan, with its predecessor - Tokyo Vocational School - established in 1881, and has since produced numerous engineers.  Meanwhile, it has also welcomed, as professors and lecturers, a number of leading figures from the humanities field,  including cultural anthropologist Kawakita Jiro (1920-2009), Nagai Michio (1923-2000),　educator who went on to become Minister of Education, and literary critic Eto Jun  (1932-1999).

Based on this academic tradition, the Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology was established in 1996, to pioneer a new field that would become an interface between the sciences and humanities, and tackle the ever more complex and serious issues facing the world today. We at the Department of Value and Decision Science have teamed up with the Department of Human System Science, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management and Department of Social Engineering to create a unique research facility.

  • 2001 the Tokyo Institute of Technology, along with three renowned universities; Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Tokyo Medical and Dental University, formed the Four University Alliance. 
  • 2003 and 2004, the Framework for Systematization and Application of Large-scale Knowledge Resources and the Creation of Agent-Based Social Systems Sciences - two projects in which we were participant members - were chosen for these two consecutive years the Center of Excellence Program, a Japanese national research project.
  • 2004 saw the commencement of the Tokyo Tech-Tsinghua Joint Graduate Program.
  • 2006 10th anniversary of the department.
  • 2008 Professor Imada Takatoshi of Sociology awarded the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from the Japanese Government.
Organization 
Chair:  Professor Inohara Takehiro (2011-)

Number of students
Master's course 50 (including 9 foreign students)
Doctor's course 40 (including 5 foreign students) 
(As of April 2013)
 
Location
Department of Value and Decision Science,

Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology
Tokyo Institute of Technology
2-12-1 Ookayama Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552 JAPAN 

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