21 Best Natural Sciences Master's Degree Programs in Japan for 2024

Specialized Theory: Veterinary Infectious Disease, Wildlife Medicine and Conservation, Physiology for Veterinary Technician, Molecular Genetics, Public Health, Veterinary Microbiology, Animal Ecology – Specialized Seminar: Bioscience for Veterinary Nursing – Specialized Study: Bioscience for Veterinary Nursing – Special lecture: Veterinary Nursing and Technology

This department aims to nurture specialists who can contribute to medical care, as well as researchers in the field of clinical pharmacy. During the first semester, students are required to take specialized subjects in clinical pharmacy. During the next six months, they learn and practice the work performed by pharmacists on hospital wards at affiliated hospitals. During their second year, students work on a research topic at SPU or a teaching hospital under the guidance of their advisor and write a master's thesis.

To elucidate the brain functions, it is essential not only to conduct micro-level research such as the conduction of electrical signals and chemical transmission by neurotransmitters, but also the system-level research on how they “function as a circuit” and “connect to actual thoughts and actions.” The Department of Physiology 2 grapples with this arduous but interesting problem by utilizing primates whose brain structure is similar to that of humans, by electrophysiological and pharmacological approaches. The current main theme is the elucidation of mechanisms by which emotion, memory, and attention change the decision-making process and actions. We dream of discovering the universal principle of calculation processing in the brain.

The School of Life Science offers a variety of subjects in the fields of nutrition science for health enhancement and management, architecture for living environment, and biology for the regional environment. Students are supposed to learn about and understand the relationship between academic study and livelihood.

Electrons, when confined in a nanometer-sized space (1 nanometer = 10-9 m), remarkably begin to behave like waves. For example, an organic molecule can be considered as a quantum state in which electrons are confined in an nm space consisting of atoms connected together. Semiconductor nanoparticles show colors different from those of bulk solids due to this quantum size effect. The Quantum Materials Science Laboratory studies molecules, crystals, nanoparticles, and ultrathin films of both organic and inorganic materials, utilizes various optics-based experimental approaches to clarify material properties from the viewpoint of quantum physics, and aims to create new functional materials that will be used in optical information-communication or environment-conscious devices in the future.

Students explore indigenous cultures of the world, including courses in history, folklore, geography, archeology, art history, cultural assets studies, and others. They engage in fieldwork such as the excavation of Suwahara in Yamanashi, research on the Toshodai-ji documents, and the research and preservation of cultural heritage sites in Vietnam.

This division conducts, on the basis of physics, chemistry and biology and their interdisciplinary field, cutting-edge studies on the structure and variation mechanisms of the environment and ecosystems in coastal waters and their related environmental issues, and pollution and toxic effects of hazardous chemicals on a regional and a global scale.

This program trains engineers and researchers to handle the challenges of interdisciplinary fields that are even more advanced than the usually specialized fields so that they can use their grounding in chemistry to provide solutions related to these vital issues.

What is matter? Why does matter display a wide range of properties and functions? How was the Universe created? The research groups in the Department of Physics tackle such fundamental questions in the natural sciences head-on.

As science and technology become ever more sophisticated, and advances in the field take place at an ever-accelerating rate, so research and education in the sciences in graduate schools to generate researchers and highly skilled professionals, especially in Master's programs, become ever more necessary. This is reflected in the current employment market, where more companies are becoming increasingly aggressive in efforts to attract students to post-graduate programs. Some have even made a Master's degree a requirement for employment.

Students in this department aim to acquire specialized learning in pharmaceutical sciences and research abilities, focusing on basic pharmaceutical sciences. The curriculum is composed of eight lectures on specialized topics, seminars, and specialized experiments. Students take the required credits, work on their own research topic under the guidance of their academic advisor, and write a master's thesis.

Our laboratory investigates regulatory mechanisms of immune-cell trafficking (adhesion and migration). Adhesion molecules integrins play important roles in lymphocyte homing to peripheral lymphoid organs and leukocyte migration through the inflamed endothelium, and adhesive interactions to antigen-presenting cells. We identified small GTPase Rap1 as a crucial regulator of integrin-dependent cell attachment and migration during these processes. We further clarified the Rap1 signaling pathway to integrins, which abnormal regulation led to a breakdown of self-tolerance due to impaired thymocyte selections and regulatory T cells development and functions. Combined with mice models of immune diseases, we are developing various tissue imaging methods and pursuing therapeutic strategies of intractable immune diseases by controlling immune cell adhesion.

Aiming to solve the various problems related to global environmental change, the management of marine life and submarine resources and shallow water environmental preservation, the importance of oceanographic observation and marine bioprospecting is increasing more and more. On the other hand, there is an increasing number of researchers who get involved solely in existing data analysis and theoretical research, without having any field experience, a fact that also raises concern about the negative effect of missing important discoveries. These are difficult to achieve by researchers who don't have the experience in observation and research by ship, indispensable especially in ocean field research. In this program, taking advantage of the characteristic feature of this university, which is having a training ship, through training in observation and research not only along the coast but also in the ocean, through practice and internships on the research ship, opportunities to participate in observation and research in the marine field are created for students enrolled in the Master's and Doctoral Course, who aim at various research fields. Thanks to this, while making them aware of the meaning of field research, they acquire a wide-range of knowledge and advanced skills, and the program aims at fostering ship engineers and researchers who are able to perform well in international collaborative research.

bioengineering is the field in which the organisms find and dexterous functions such as recognition, transmission, movement, and biosynthesis are investigated, and its outcome is employed for practical applications. Bioengineering major has been established to train students as high-leveled established engineers or researchers who are experts in the basics and application of biology-related sciences. Courses offered are planned to provide knowledge in wide areas of both basics and applications.

Physics elucidates the basic laws of nature that govern the vast range from the microscopic world of atoms and electrons to the universe. In this course curriculum, you will learn physics in order from the basics. In addition to sophisticated lecture subjects, we will proceed with learning while checking the contents of the lectures in experimental subjects and practice subjects. The main subjects are mathematics, mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and the theory of relativity, which are necessary for physics. Based on these, we will understand the structure of elementary particles and the universe and the properties of matter.

The master’s program consists of five courses: “Biology”, “Biochemistry & Molecular Biology”, “Applied Biosciences”, “Agriculture & Horticulture”, and “Agricultural & Environmental Engineering”.

This division aims to nurture the researchers who have advanced knowledge and research competency through the studies on the structure and dynamics of the Earth, planets, and universe in GRC and RCSCE. The division consists of four terrains of high-pressure mineralogy, the theory of Earth and planetary materials, galaxy evolution, and X-ray astrophysics.

Looking at our clothing, food, and shelter, it is clear that humankind’s prosperity in the 20th century was brought about by progress in chemistry. Naturally, chemistry will continue to be the key to prosperity in the 21st century.

This course is designed to cultivate resources corresponding to the space age in the fields of space environmental science, global environment measurement technology, satellite communication engineering, and information processing engineering. For these purposes, students study advanced technology for space and the earth's environment on the basis of knowledge about techniques of electronics and information engineering. We welcome the following students. 1.Students with a strong interest in space and the global environment, and who have basic knowledge of mathematics, physics and fundamental engineering skills. 2.Students with a strong spirit of challenge who will strive to solve even the most difficult problems by leveraging the knowledge and engineering skills they have acquired. 3.Students who have a highly inquisitive mind and a spirit of cooperation.

We have classes that teach basic concepts in organic, inorganic, and physical chemistries, followed by advanced classes for organic and inorganic materials chemistry, organic and inorganic synthetic chemistry, catalyst chemistry, and electrochemistry. In addition, we place an emphasis on hands-on training under laboratory conditions in addition to classroom teaching to experience and analyze various chemical processes.