I am researching standards for exercising state jurisdiction in Internet. I am also researching ways to protect students from natural disasters. In addition, I am conducting a legal analysis of informed consent in veterinary medicine.

We are engaged in nursing research on the creation and development of new technologies that can visualize the desire to care for animals setting our target on the nursing that emphasizes the happiness of all animals. In recent years, in particular, the aging of animals is accelerating its pace, so nursing in the senior period is required to be more practical and individualized. Above all else, we focus our attention on the prevention and management of pressure ulcers and push for relevant research.

Besides, in collaboration with animal nurses at various veterinary hospitals, we are working on research such as creating observation scales that are usable for clinical practice.

Non-human primates are prone to a variety of naturally occurring diseases, including diabetes, hyperlipidemia, heart disease, endometriosis, gastrointestinal disorders such as gastric dilatation and intractable diarrhea, macular degeneration, cataracts, periodontal disease, growth disorders, and tumors. We are conducting research to clinically and pathologically evaluate these conditions and assess their potential as models for human diseases.
Furthermore, chronic pain, such as neuropathic pain, can persist even after damage to the nervous system has healed, resulting in ongoing pain and discomfort. However, many aspects of its causes remain unclear. We conduct research on the assessment and treatment of chronic pain and visceral pain, with the aim of contributing to pain management in both animals and humans.
When I actually tried using toys to care for experimental animals, the animals often lost interest quickly and stopped playing, broke the toys, or left them in unsanitary conditions, which frequently led me to question their effectiveness. I am eager to actively engage in research on environmental enrichment for animals.

(Research on Campylobacter Control in Poultry Meat)
This study examines hygiene management for raw poultry dishes such as torisashi and tori-tataki, aiming to reduce Campylobacter food poisoning associated with undercooked chicken.
(Research on Campylobacter Typing Methods)
The project focuses on developing rapid typing techniques using bacterial genes, proteins, and other markers to support quick identification during outbreaks.
(Research on Risk Communication for Raw Meat Consumption)
This research explores effective ways to communicate foodborne illness risks related to raw meat products such as basashi, yukhoe, and raw liver, seeking new communication approaches beyond traditional one-way messaging.
(Research on Wildlife Management in Ehime Prefecture)
This study contributes to addressing agricultural damage and ecological disruption caused by wild boar, sika deer, and macaques through scientific analysis and collaboration among industry, government, academia, and financial sectors.

My research interests are in Faculty Development (FD) and Staff Development (SD) in higher education. Until now I am engaged in development of textbooks for FD such as “Active Learning” and “Course Design”. My activity is not a discovery of new knowledge, but an integration of existing knowledge on teaching practice. Recently, I have been interested in development of practical approaches for academic advising.

Obesity is the common nutritional disorder in veterinary medicine. I reserched any metabolic factor related genes and capture changes in individual metabolic capacity.
Disc Herniation is highly prevalent in some dog breeds such as miniature dachshunds. It is thought that gene mutations related to some structural factors are specifically conserved. I am studying those causal factors.

When injection substances such as anesthetics to experimental animals, they should be pharmaceutical or veterinary grade or the Japanese Pharmacopoeia products, and scientific justification is required for the use of non-pharmaceutical grade compounds. Pentobarbital sodium has been used as an anesthetic for small laboratory rodents because of its rapid on set of effect, rapid loss of consciousness, and low cost compared to other anesthetics. However, this anesthetic is no longer marketed, and it has become necessary to find an alternative anesthetic to pentobarbital sodium. In this study, we will devise new anesthetic methods by combining anesthetics, sedatives, and analgesics that are currently manufactured and marketed as drugs.

It seems to be common knowledge today that human rights are universal. However, despite the universality of human rights, discrimination based on race and gender, as well as human rights violations arising from religious backgrounds, continue to occur in the international community. One of the reasons behind this problem is the opinion that although the concept of human rights itself is universal, the particular circumstances (cultural) of each region in the international community are different, and therefore it is not really possible to implement human rights with the same standards in all regions. I believe that the universality that human rights possess is not necessarily in conflict with the particularities in a region. In order to pursue and clarify this view, I am researching how human rights (international human rights) should be addressed in the international community (methodology). The study examines this concept from the perspective of whether it is compatible with the universality of human rights. We also study what grounds the universality of human rights. In particular, we are studying whether the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which was the starting point for the numerous international human rights treaties created mainly by the United Nations, can be recognized as customary international law today.

I aim to understand and evaluate the physical and mental conditions of livestock animals from the viewpoints of physiology and behavior, and to construct a rearing environment in which livestock animals can maximize their potential. In particular, we are conducting research on the effects of temperature on livestock animals and examining ways to supply healthy, safe, and high-quality livestock products to people even under climate change caused by global warming.

To provide safer anesthesia for animals, I am studying anesthesia-related techniques and nursing interventions that veterinary nurses for companion animals should implement during the peri-anesthetic period (including before, during, and after anesthesia).
Among these, I have investigated focusing on the management of body temperature during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations, which is said to pose many problems even in human medicine.
Also, I am actively researching nursing interventions that can support animals to stay as calm and comfortable as possible in veterinary hospitals.

The overall purpose of my study is to examine the syntheses, structures, and electronic structures of unique complexes containing commodity organic molecules. The concrete target is finding novel complexes out of the combination of commodity organic molecules and commodity metal ions in the periodic table, preparing the crystals (powder or single crystal), determing the X-ray structures, calculating the electronic structures by first principle, and measuring the physical properties (spectroscopic property etc.).

The purpose of my study is to clarify metamorhic P-T conditons, supply system of terrigenous clastics, tectonic erosion process and so on from rocks related to ancient subduction and collsion zones, based on field geology, petrology and geochronology. I have worked on the researches with external reserchers.

(1) Probing new physics model via top quark interactions
If we understand behaviors of elementary particles based on the physics models which describes dynamics of elementary particles, we could understand the structure of space nd time (i.e. Universe). I think that top quark plays important roles to probe new physics models describing unknown nature of the elementary particle physics. Therefore, I study top quark interactions.

(2) Development of teaching materials for programming educations
It is not easy for beginners to make programs without learning the grammar of programming language. Thus, we proposed teaching materials for programming educations focusing on studies of algorithms without learning the grammar of programming language. The materials are constructed a visual programming environment Scratch, actual robots and a conversion software which translates from programs made by Scratch to the control code for actual robots. Now, we are evaluating the teaching materials based on statistical analysis of the results of questionnaire gotten from the classes in which the materials are used.

Our laboratory has developed molecular and crystal structure models made from inexpensive and readily available materials, including cardboard, electronic components, and LEGO blocks.

In statistical inference, testing for normality is one of the most fundamental problems traditionally. The below left figure is the probability density function of the normal distribution. We have obtained a grahical method of testing for multivariate normality based on the pricipal component score and an approximate joint distribution of sample skewness and kurtosis. We illustrate our method for Fisher’s iris data in the below right figure.

I am developing the teaching materials for the science education. The university students who do not understand contents of the science studied at elementary and junior high school exist in a considerable ratio. Therefore I survey the actual situation of the science literacy of students, analyze the weak point and develop the teaching materials based on this analysis. In addition, I have carried out many scientific events and lectures for children and citizens in local community with students. I am studying the teaching materials and human resource development for such a science communication activities.

A subject of my research in the cryptographic theory is development of new cryptographic system which prevents attacks of quantum computer which has potential to grow up into big threat. Its security analysis in theoretical and experimental manner is also important, therefore, for multivariate public-key cryptography in particular, I hold a cryptography solving contest, MQ challenge, as one of organizers, and the contest is released to public on a website as follows.

I also study not only simple cryptography with normal function, and also cryptography with high-function like keeping addition in the encrypted world.
A subject of my research in the number theory is the automorphic representation which is related to unsolved problems, Langland conjecture and Arthur conjecture.

Various studies of solid state physics are researched using cryogenic technology, liquid-helium and liquid-nitrogen.
For example, very strong electromagnet is constructed by myself using superconductive technology. This equipment will be used for a microorganism study.

-Patent-
JAPANESE PATENT
Pub. No.4975154
EUROPEAN PATENT
SPECI- FICATION, Inter.
Pub. Number:WO 2012/039429
[Water-Mixed fuel and method for producing same]

◆Research◆
The purpose of our study is the elucidation of the function of biomolecules by the computer simulation. We have carried out large-scale biomolecular quantum chemical computations, fragment molecular orbital (FMO) calculation and first-principles calculation, using the supercomputer FUGAKU. Our present works are (1) to explore the relationship between drug effects and side effects by analyzing the interaction of drugs and proteins, (2) to elucidate the function of proteins by analyzing of electrionic states of proteins and to develop new materials, (3) to elucidate the enantioselectivity and reactivity of the enzyme in organic synthesis by the biomolecular computational simulations of the complexes of lipases with organic compounds.
◆Social activity◆
・Group sub-leader of Enzyme WG of FMO Drug Design Consortium

I am working on the development of statistical methods, especially methods for regression problems. We are also creating the program (package). A regression problem is to estimate the relationship (regression function) between explanatory variables and the expected value of a response variable. I am interested in techniques for selecting some explanatory variables that are influencing the response variable. I am studying how to select variables when assuming a parametric model and a non-parametric model for the regression function. Regression analysis is used to estimate causal effects, for example in the analysis of covariance. I am also conducting research on the application of the developed methods to causal inference.