Osaka Prefecture
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| 2024 | Joint team 'SHINOBI' from Kyoto University and OIT students won 2nd prize in RoboCup Eindhoven in the Rescue Robot League. |
| 2024 | OIT researchers at Department of Applied Chemistry and INRAE developed soap-like edible gas marbles stabilized with cinnamon particles that make sounds when bitten and can be used to decorate cakes. |
| 2024 | Finished fourth in the league, qualifying for the 2025-26 AFC Champions League Two group stage. |
| 2024 | FC Osaka finishes 6th in their league, earning 58 points in 38 matches and advancing to the 1st round of the competition. |
| February 1 2024 | Naoto Otake takes over as manager of FC Osaka |
| January 31 2024 | Ryo Shigaki concludes his management of FC Osaka |
| 2023 | Hirofumi Yoshimura was re-elected, winning 2,439,444 votes and securing 73.7% of the total votes, marking the highest percentage for the Osaka Restoration Association in gubernatorial elections. |
| 2023 | 4 OIT professors from Department of Applied Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering were selected in the Stanford University and Elsevier 'TOP 2% of the world's most influential researchers' comprehensive list. |
| 2023 | FC Osaka competes in J3 League, finishing 11th with 53 points in 38 matches. |
| February 1 2023 | Ryo Shigaki begins his tenure as manager of FC Osaka |
| January 31 2023 | Shinya Tsukahara ends his managerial period with FC Osaka |
| January 20 2023 | FC Osaka confirmed they will use Hanazono Rugby Stadium for all matches in the 2023 J3 season after the full league calendar was released. |
| 2022 | OIT researchers developed an innovative 'Micro reaction vessel' using light-irradiated droplets (Liquid Marbles) in collaboration with UMET, Lille University of Science and Technology, and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). The research was supported by JSPS and published in 'ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces'. |
| November 20 2022 | FC Osaka's promotion to J3 League was confirmed after meeting the minimum average home attendance requirement of 2,000 and having a 10-goal difference from champions Nara Club. |
| November 5 2022 | FC Osaka achieved promotion to J3 League for the first time in their history after spending eight seasons in Japan Football League, finishing as runners-up. |
| January 12 2022 | The team name was changed back to FC Osaka. |
| 2021 | An international collaborative research group from OIT, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University developed an innovative method for preparing 'Chiral Silica' with a molecular-scale helical structure. The research was promoted by NEDO and published in the Open Access Journal 'JACS Au' of the American Chemical Society (ACS). |
| 2021 | Ranked 401+ in the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings. |
| 2021 | Ranked 801–1000th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings in the field of Engineering & Information Technology, and placed in the TOP10 Private Universities in Japan. |
| 2021 | Participated in AFC Champions League Group Stage, facing Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors (Korea), Tampines Rovers (Singapore), and Chiangrai United (Thailand). |
| July 7 2021 | Recorded their highest ever AFC Champions League win by defeating Tampines Rovers 8-1, with Shuhei Kawasaki scoring a hat-trick. |
| January 1 2021 | The top team's name was changed to F.C.✩OSAKA, with 'F' representing multiple meanings including Fields, Foundation, For people, and 'C' standing for Community contribution, Cooperation, Confidence, and Creation. |
| 2020 | OIT and Kobe University started a joint collaboration to accelerate start-up businesses from the Kansai region, supporting university-led ventures in developing intellectual property strategies and business models. |
| 2020 | A research group from University of Tokyo, RIKEN, and OIT developed a world-first 'Transportable Optical lattice clock' with ultra-precise measurements, verified through testing at Tokyo Skytree. The device allows equivalent space experiments with a 10,000 times less height difference compared to conventional satellite and rocket methods. |
| 2020 | Ranked 2nd in the 'Truly Strong Universities' for Employment by Toyo Keizai Japan University Rankings. |
| 2020 | Finished as J1 League runners-up and qualified for the 2021 AFC Champions League. |
| November 2020 | Ichirō Matsui concludes his term as president of the Osaka Restoration Association after leading the party for five years. |
| September 15 2020 | The J3 League license was issued by the J.League, but FC Osaka could not be promoted, finishing 9th in the league. |
| June 30 2020 | The club applied for a J3 league license, aiming for promotion to the J3 League by 2021. |
| February 25 2020 | FC Osaka received J.League approval for the 100-year plan club status. |
| February 1 2020 | Shinya Tsukahara takes over as manager of FC Osaka |
| January 31 2020 | Haruo Wada concludes his management of FC Osaka |
| 2019 | Under leader Ichirō Matsui, the party wins 11 seats in the Prefectural Assembly with 1,530,336 votes (50.72%), maintaining a majority position. |
| 2019 | Hirofumi Yoshimura won the gubernatorial election with 2,266,103 votes, achieving 64.37% of the total votes. |
| 2019 | OIT researchers discovered a new ability of poly-3-hexylthiophene (P3HT) to convert light into heat, with potential applications in solar cells, transistors, local heating in vacuum spaces, and cancer hyperthermia. The research was published by the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Macromolecules. |
| 2019 | Faculty of Information Science and Technology ranked No.1 in Information Technology & Digital Media among institutes of technology in Japan. |
| 2019 | Ranked 58th in the SCImago Institutions Rankings for Innovation in Japan University Rankings. |
| 2019 | OIT students won the Best prize and 1st prize in the Lan Qiao Cup China's largest Collegiate Programming competition, with the winner ranked as the No.1 C/C++ Programmer in Japan universities. |
| November 26 2019 | FC Osaka signed an agreement with Higashiosaka City regarding the renovation of the second ground of Higashiosaka Hanazono Rugby Stadium, including adding spectator seats and installing a roof. |
| November 26 2019 | The club submitted documents to the J.League applying for the 'J.League 100 Year Plan club status'. |
| 2018 | OIT researcher from Department of System Design won the Sensors and Actuators Award at the International Association of Advanced Materials conference in Stockholm. |
| 2018 | OIT received trainees from the Slovak University of Technology (Slovakia) through the IAESTE exchange program. |
| 2018 | An OIT researcher from the Department of Information Systems participated in the KAGRA (Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector) Project, a national astrophysics and information systems research project managed by multiple national research institutions. |
| 2018 | Ranked 75th in the SCImago Institutions Rankings for Research in Japan University Rankings. |
| 2018 | The management corporation 'General Incorporated Association FC Osaka Sports Club' was established as a prerequisite for joining the J League. In their 4th year participating in JFL, FC Osaka finished as runners-up. |
| November 27 2018 | The club received approval to make Higashiosaka City their hometown. |
| 2017 | OIT's team 'OIT Trial' won the World's No. 7 place in RoboCup in the @Home category in Nagoya. |
| 2017 | Japan's first 'Robot Service Business School' was launched by NEDO at OIT's Robotics & Design Center to provide integrated education in robotics technology, design, and business expertise. |
| 2017 | Osaka Institute of Technology expanded its academic offerings to include 16 undergraduate degrees and 6 master's degrees across engineering, robotics and design, information science and technology, and intellectual property. The institute also introduced 5 doctoral degree programs in these fields. |
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