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Akira Hiruma The chairman of the board

Creating New Industries with Photonics
Photonics is a "Key Enabling Technology."
With Photonics, we can bring our imaginations to life,
With Photonics, we can achieve our goals, and
With Photonics, we can meet the future.

Our graduate school, GPI: The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, was established in 2004, inspired by the vision of our first chairman, Teruo Hiruma. He believed that photonics is the crucial technology of the 21st century, stating, 'We aim to nurture individuals who aspire to create new industries in Japan using photonics, addressing the societal demands for new industrial development.'
Our graduate school was founded through a collaboration with Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., a leading photonics technology company, alongside various manufacturing enterprises.

Located in Hamamatsu, our graduate school GPI strives to transform the city into a hub where entrepreneurs from around the globe come together to launch new startups, thereby fostering the creation of new industries.
We are committed to working with a wide range of people to discover new applications for photonics and dedicate ourselves to the development of new industries.

Hiroyasu Ito President

The second and third leading photonics companies originated from GPI alumni

Why is our graduated school GPI so committed to Hamamatsu? It is because Hamamatsu is the city where university-launched startups, originating from Dr. Kenjiro Takayanagi, known as the father of television, continue to grow as leading companies in photonics.

From Hamamatsu, our graduate school continually strives to produce university-launched startups. Students who aim to start companies or develop new businesses enroll in our institution to learn the process of entrepreneurship and new business creation based on photonics.

GPI students and faculty working together as one team to aim for "innovation creation through photonics" is the very practice of the words of Teruo Hiruma, the founder of our graduate school, "There is value in what we do not know yet and what we cannot do yet."

It is exciting to imagine that one day, alumni of our graduate school will create new photonics industries as the second and third leading photonics companies.

Vice President

Akihiko Tsuboi
Kazuhisa Fujita
Katsuhiro Ishii
The structure of the photonics industry is "inverted pyramid-shaped."
Normally, industries have a "pyramid-shaped" structure where the production of final products is at the apex, with many manufacturers forming layers beneath it.

In contrast, industries applying photonics are "inverted pyramid"-shaped, originating from advanced photonics technologies and creating new developments across a wide range of industrial areas such as medical, bio, energy, information, and processing. The application areas of this technology are expanding daily.

Our graduate school aims to significantly widen that angle like a fan through the practice of entrepreneurship and new business development, aspiring to contribute to the entire industrial world.

1955-1, Kurematsu-cho, chuo-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, 431-1202, JAPAN
TEL : 053-484-2501 FAX : 053-487-3012

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