Well-being Research Center

Center Director: Toru Takebayashi (Professor, School of Medicine)

Main Campus: Shinanomachi

In the society of the future, it will be more important than ever to sustainably enhance well-being, which is a state of physical, mental, and social wellness.

This center fuses Japan's life sciences, information technology, and manufacturing capabilities, organically linking outstanding research results from different fields through integrated data science. It accelerates technological innovation and social implementation, creating mechanisms at the local level to generate new fields and industries. Furthermore, by building and utilizing an integrated social security database as its foundation, the center aims to continuously improve public services and realize more attractive and prosperous lives for local residents.

Well-being, data science, social security, life sciences, manufacturing

■ Implementation Details for the Fiscal Year Business Plan, Research Results, and Degree of Achievement

In April 2016, Keio University opened the Tonomachi Town Campus, an advanced research and education collaboration square positioned as a venue for solving major social issues in collaboration with local universities, research institutions, companies, and municipalities. At the same time, it concluded a "Cooperation Agreement on the Promotion of Research and Education Activities at the Campus" with Kawasaki City. Keio University has fully launched a system to develop research and education activities at the Tonomachi Town Campus, promote industry-academia-government collaboration, and drive the creation of innovation and new industries. Concurrently, Kawasaki City established a business cooperation system by holding regular liaison meetings with the four local governments responsible for the region (Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama City, and Ota Ward) and related business parties. For business promotion, it also built a strong collaborative framework with the Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion and KAST.

As a result of these efforts, this center made a full-scale start as a research complex leading global well-being, with research projects centered on King Skyfront in Tonomachi. In September 2016, it was officially selected as a hub for the "Program for Building a World-Class Regional R&D and Demonstration Hub (Research Complex)" by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

The proposal with Keio University as the core institution was officially selected as a hub for the "Program for Building a World-Class Regional R&D and Demonstration Hub (Research Complex)" by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), enabling the execution of advanced education and research centered on this center until the end of fiscal year 2019.