Institute of Regional Innovation (IRI) 国立大学法人弘前大学

Greetings Institute of Regional Innovation (IRI) was launched on April 1, 2018 by merging two former institutes of North Research Institute for Sustainable Energy (NJRISE) and Institute for Food Sciences (IFS) in Hirosaki University. In March 2009, North Japan Research Centre for Sustainable Energy was launched at City, and in October 2010, it was promoted to an institute, that is NJRISE. Thereafter, IFS was launched at Aomori City in April, 2013. One is for Sustainable Energy and one is for Food Science. Both aimed to contribute to the regional promotion and development. Director IRI Sustainable energy and food in Japan are encountering the drastic turning point, Akihiro Honda and regional community will play more and more important role in the future. The new IRI will inherit the innovation spirit of the two predecessors, strengthening the cooperation with the local governments, enterprises and institutes to maximize the utilization of local renewable energy and food resources, and training more talents to serve the local energy and food. We believe that the regional innovation will change the world. We would greatly appreciate your continuing support and cooperation.

Section of Sustainable Energy The importance of the energy sources is undoubtedly no matter energy as main power supply" become more and more obvious. in the past, now and future, especially for Japan with a lake of The Aims of The Section of Renewable Energy are to develop resources. Now, the economy of Japan depends heavily on fossil novel technologies to use the regional sustainable energy fuels, which is the main reason of the trade deficit of Japan. including solar, wind, biomass, geothermal energy efficiently, and Meanwhile, to suppress greenhouse gas emissions, the importance train more talents to serve the local energy economy. of the national energy policy such as “energy mix” and “renewable

Section of Food Sciences The Institute for food Sciences, the predecessor of Section of Food that contribute to the value of local agricultural and marine Sciences, was established on March 25, 2013. Because of its products, to the preservation and utilization of marine resources geographical and climatic conditions, produces and to the development of new food production technologies. In a wide variety of agricultural and marine products. The section addition, the section plays a role as a coordinator in the growth carries out a wide range of food science research including studies strategy for the food industry in northern Japan.

Section of Regional Innovation Management To formulate a regional strategy focusing on energy and food network to strengthen the cooperation with the local resources, we will cooperate closely with the section of regional governments, enterprises and institutes to maximize the utilization innovation of Hirosaki University to conduct regional strategic of local energy and food resources by using our technologies planning from a position close to the various research seeds of especially in the fields of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and link energy and food science in our institute. We will try to make a regional resource to economic activities. 7 280 Aomori Station Access 4 Shin Aomori Station Aomori Prefectural Government Office Yanagawa Area Aomori IC Matsubara areaArea ● Yanagawa areaArea Aomori Bay Bridge Aomori Expressway ● Aomori City Office Aomori Chuo IC (Yanagawa Office) Aoiumi Park Aomori Bypass Aomori City Aomori Forestry Museum Station 103 280 Tohoku Shinkansen

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Aomori Prefectural to Lake Towada 7 Hakko St. Government Office ● Aoimori Aomori City Office 4 Park (Main Office) ● Matsubara Area 103

Yanagimachi St. Heiwa Park

● ● Sapporo Kanko St. Kanko Heiwa Park St. Park Heiwa Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art Hakodate Matsubara Area 10 minutes by car

Aomori Hachinohe Hirosaki

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Matsubara 2-1-3 Aomori City 〒030-0813 Next to Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum TEL/+81(0)17-735-3363 FAX/+81(0)17-735-5411 Tokyo Yanagawa Area Nagoya 8 minutes walk from Aomori Station Osaka

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Traffic Access (Time required from each city to Aomori) City Name By Highway By Railway By Airplane 5hour 30min 1hour Sapporo （JR Conventional Line＋Shinkansen）（New - Chitose Airport） Hakodate 2hour （Shinkansen） Yanagawa 2-1-1 Aomori City 〒038-0012 Aomori City Office (Yanagawa 50min Office) 1F TEL/+81(0)17-763-5028 FAX/+81(0)17-781-7071 Hirosaki 60min （JR Conventional Line） 40min Hachinohe 1hour 50min （Shinkansen）

Sendai 4hour 30min 2hour Contact Inquiries （Shinkansen） Tokyo 7hour 30min 3hour 30min 1hour 20min Institute of Regional Innovation Office （Shinkansen） (Haneda Airport) Matsubara 2-1-3 Aomori City 〒030-0813 Nagoya 5hour 30min 1hour 20min Next to Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum （Shinkansen） (Komaki Airport) TEL/+81(0)17-735-3363 FAX/+81(0)17-735-5411 Osaka 6hour 1hour 45min http://www.iri.hirosaki-u.ac.jp/ （Shinkansen） (Itami Airport)