I am in charge of the director of Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors (RLNR) since April 2007. RLNR had been founded in 1956 in order to research scientific principle and application of nuclear engineering. Although RLNR is a small scale as a university institute, many excellent research activities on nuclear energy and radiation utilization have been achieved since the foundation. It has an important role in the field of nuclear energy.

The Department of Nuclear Engineering of Tokyo Institute of Technology, which is mainly run by RLNR, has succeeded in getting the big funding as the Center of Excellence program of 21st century since 2003 on the subject of "Innovative Nuclear Energy System". This program has been promoted by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to lead the activities of the universities to a top level in the world. Since the core members of this program make great efforts to achieve the fruitful results, I believe that the program will be successfully closed. I would like to develop the fruits of this program and to make our Department be an international center of nuclear engineering in graduate schools.

Since the system of Japanese national universities was changed on April, 2004, the role and positioning of research laboratories attached to them should be reconsidered. Our laboratory is also in the same situation. The fundamental researches on nuclear engineering are and will be carried out in our laboratory to solve global energy and environmental problems which will threaten human life. In addition, new science will be created in the fields of nuclear energy, radiation utilization and related social science herein. I would like to make our laboratory be an international research center of nuclear energy and radiation utilization in collaboration with universities in USA , Europe and Asia .

I would work during the term of two years in cooperation with the various external experts as well as the Laboratory staffs and do my best to make RLNR be the university institute which society expects and which satisfy the staffs and students.