Fukami-Kanai Laboratory
Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University

We held the 2025 year-end party together with a welcome party for new Bachelor 3rd grade students, a celebration party for promoted members, and a farewell party for a member leaving soon.

The 59th Ekiden (long-distance relay) Race was held in the Aobayama New Campus. Fukami lab and Otsuka lab formed two joint teams (A and B). Out of 44 total entries, Team A placed 3rd and Team B placed 32nd.

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2018: 14th
2019: 13th
2022: 4th
2023: 4th
2024: 4th

We finally achieved 3rd place. Great job, everyone!

The second game in the group stage the softball tournament was held. After a fierce battle, the score was tied at 8-8.

We lost the match by a rock-paper-scissors tiebreaker.

We held an “Imoni party”, a traditional event in the Tohoku region similar to barbecue. 

We deepened our bonds while enjoying Sendai-style and Yamagata-style imoni stew and BBQ under fine weather.

We had a welcome party for Antonia (Univ. Mainz), Victor (Dual PhD between Lorrain and Tohoku), Veronika (Czech Tech Univ), and Rishi (Imperial College London) in a restaurant near the Sendai Station.

The softball tournament 2025 just started.
We won the opening game by a score of 7-4!

The second match in a group league of the ECEI (Group of Electrical Engineering, Communication Engineering, Electronic Engineering, and Information Engineering) Futsal Tournament was held. Taking advantage of the rule of free substitution of players with a numerical superiority situation, we won the game by 10 to 2, proceeding to the knock-out stage.

We had a cherry blossom viewing party (“Hanami” in Japanese) with our lab members, which also served as a welcome party for new members (1 PD, 3 M1 students).

We held a farewell party for members who are going to graduate this March (Kubota kun, Kurihara kun, and Takano kun).

We visited the Grandeco Snow Resort in Fukushima Prefecture on March 1-2. 

We all from the beginners to experts enjoyed skiing/snowboarding during the two days.

We held the year-end party together with a welcome party for new Bachelor 3rd grade students.

We participated in the 58th Ekiden race (long-distance relay race) of the Group of Electrical Engineering, Communication Engineering, Electronic Engineering, and Information Engineering. We came 4th out of 33 teams!

We held “Imoni party”, a traditional event in Tohoku region similar to barbecue. It was wonderful and everyone had a good time.

We had a cherry blossom viewing party(Hanami) with our lab members, which also served as a welcome party for new members (secretary, 4 new M1’s and 4 new B4’s).

Prof.Hideo Ohno, President of Tohoku University’s final lecture and a retirement party were held.

The final lecture was given in a hybrid, in-person at conference room of the Nano-Spin Research Building and online.

The title of the lecture was “Walking with Spintronics”, lasted about 70 minutes.

The venue was almost full of audience.Online attendees also reached the maximum capacity of 300.

After that, the retirement party was held at Sendai Kokusai Hotel.

The party was also great success.

We went to Inawashiro Ski on March 1-2.

We had so much fun skiing and snowboarding, including Prof. Fukami’s family.

Some of us enjoyed sightseeing around Inawashiro City.

We held a farewell party for members who are going to graduate this March( Abe san, Ota san, Shinoda san, Sumith san, Mochizuki san).

We held the year-end party together with welcome party for Aurelien and new Bachelor 3rd grade students.

We held “Imoni party”, a traditional event in Tohoku region similar to barbecue.

We held a Cherry Blossom Viewing (Hanami party)!

We held an online alumni reunion. English version will be held soon.

We held welcome party for Valentin.

We held cherry‐blossom viewing (Hanami) party with members from Ohtsuka Lab. & Ikeda Lab.

Today, We held a party for graduation of members of M2 and D3 students in Fukami (Associate) laboratory, and also gave them presents.

 I have been indebted to a lot. And finally, thanks so much.

We wish you all the best in your place of work.

We went to Inawashiro Ski and enjoyed skiing/snowboarding.

We were able to see “Inawashiro-lake” clearly!!　↓

We held a wrap up party for final thesis of B4 and M2 and D3 students with Ikeda lab.

Ohno adviser also attended this party, it was very flourish!!

Members of B4(Okuda kun, Zoysa kun) did a great job, but also difficult for you.

Please rest well……

And also, 4 members of M2(Itoh kun, Saino kun, Takahashi kun, Wang kun) and a member of D3(Watanabe kun) did a great job.

We held work shop, “16th RIEC Internatinal Workshop on Spintronics”, in nano-spin building.

There were 116 participants, (33 of them were from overseas) and densely discussed “the newest spintronics”.

We held a year-end party with the member of Ohtsuka Lab. and Ikeda Lab.

and also, we celebrate the birth of Prof. Ohtsuka’s child.
Magnet toy was given to him.

and also, we celebrate the marriage of Samik(Assistant Prof.).
KYU-SU & YUNOMI(which are Japanese traditional cotainer and cups) were given to them.

We held wrap up party for EKIDEN & K. Watanebe’s predefense!

We held Colloqium camp with Ohtsuka Lab. at “岩松旅館“.

Ohno adviser also took part in the camp, and did very fruitful discussion.

Next day, we went to “Nikka whiskey factory 宮城峡蒸留所”.

We held “Imoni” party! The weather was great and well done!

Z. Wang(M2), T. Koga(M1), T. Funatsu(M1), K. Furuya(M1), K. Miyasaka(M1) attended “The 37th Electronic Materials Symposium”.

“RIEC open house” was held, and was a great success!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!

 We celebrated R. Okuda(B4), Z. K. Vihanga(B4), K. Furuya(B4) finishing the end of master cource exam !

YOU DID A GOOD JOB !!

We celebrated R. Itoh(M2), Y. Takahashi(M2), T. Saino(M2), C. Wang(M2) getting a job and K. Watanabe(D2) coming home from a study abroad in France.

Congraturations !!

Advisor H. Ohno, Assoc. Pf. S. Fukami, Assis. Pf. B. Jinnai, K. Watanabe (D3), Y. Takeuchi (D2), T. Dohi (D2), and J. Igarashi (D1) attended the IEEE International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG 2018), held in Singapore.

Hanami-Party was held in our (Katahira) Campus.