Master's in Human-Social Information Sciences

Tohoku University is a Japanese national university that was founded in 1907. It is located in Sendai, Japan and is considered one of the most prestigious universities in the country. The university has five campuses: Katahira, Kawauchi, Aobayama, Seiryo and Amamiya. It is ranked among Japan’s leading universities and is considered one of the top universities in the world.

What changes would the information society bring? To begin with, what framework; spiritual, cognitive, or cultural, would information need be comprehended and propagated? What are the solutions to the social problems the information society inevitably poses? We, in Department of Human-Social Information Sciences, are striving to answer those questions in the form of interdisciplinary research and education. The members constituting our group are trained in wide range of subjects, including, cognitive psychology, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, media theory, regional sciences and civil engineering. Recently we have been engaged in reconstructive activities of the earthquake damage of 2011. In particular, our activities include recording and analysis of resident participation in the disaster affected area, opinion polls of the citizens of Sendai city, flows of the emergency goods, the traffic pattern of the post-disaster days. Those researches have been publicized in the Japanese mass media.