About Us

Senior Vice President of R&D,
Head of Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group
Hirokazu Takenouchi

Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group is promoting information processing and communication technologies, sustainable technologies, and human science and biotechnology, as well as basic research that supports these technologies for a sustainable, safe, and secure society that embraces diversity.
Our laboratory group comprises four laboratories and covers a wide range of technology fields. Our goal is to understand things deeply, think outside the box, and create the most advanced technology in the world.

Network Innovation Laboratories:
Pioneers technologies toward new communication paradigms for diverse frequency bands and media.
Device Technology Laboratories:
Develops next-generation communication, information processing infrastructure, and technologies for a sustainable society and enriched life.
Communication Science Research Laboratories:
Pursues media, information processing, and human science that bring about social change by getting to the essence of people and information.
Basic Research Laboratories:
Creates new principles and concepts that break the barriers of current technologies and search for the seeds of future core technologies.

The technologies developed at our laboratory group are far more than simply components or elemental technologies. They are "light" with the potential to transform the very foundations of future society and industry. Yet no matter how advanced a technology may be, it cannot change society on its own. New value can be created only when diverse technologies are brought together, integrated into systems, and connected to the needs of people and society.
Rapid advances in AI and the explosive growth of information are driving a major transformation of social infrastructure. In response to these changes, there is a growing need to achieve the IOWN (Innovative Optical Wireless Network) vision of low power consumption, high capacity, and low latency, while creating a future society in which people, communities, and information are naturally and seamlessly connected.
Achieving this vision requires not only collaboration within our laboratories but also co-creation that transcends organizational boundaries. Through interdisciplinary innovation and collaboration across diverse perspectives and values, we will continue to advance research and development in an integrated manner-- from fundamental science to societal implementation-- and pursue the creation of new value that supports a sustainable, safe, and secure society.