This project started by two core-members (Kobayashi and Kudo) with a year of literature search (2011), fundraising with government and stakeholder approval (2012–2014) and the installation of a transmitter station with satellite Internet in the exclusion zone (2015). Finally, based on official preparations and approvals, a local electric company (Tohoku Electric Power Co.,Inc) agreed to sign a service contract (Commercial power contract) with us in 2016, after an intensive feasibility survey of the transmission facilities of/around the location in the exclusion zone. The final construction was completed at the end of March 2016. Started distributing these sound data in the exclusion zone to the public via the Internet, in order to make the live sounds in the area publicly available for listening in real time.

This project aims to operate the system for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year until completion of the nuclear power plant decommissioning (Scheduled for 2051 in TEPCO's decommissioning plan). At the end of 2016, the first portion of the collected audio samples (6000 hours) covering the transmitted sound recordings from the station was made available. Such data cover the Bioacoustics in the area. And finally at the end of 2016 we started our research activities. Canadian and French researchers have joined. We expect this data and activities to prove useful for studies on topics, which include radioecology and the emerging dialects for future observations.

In March 2017, the research results have been exhibited at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Japan. Also awarded as an overall winner's work, 11th Arte Laguna Prize exhibition in Venice, Italia. Furthermore, received a Good Design Award (Good Design Best 100) in Japan and German Design Award in Germany in 2018. In April 2020, the two core-members received the Scientist's Prize for the Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT (the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) Japan.

This research is in collaboration with the Cyber ​​Forest Project.

As of the end of 2020, the recorded data exceeds 40,000 hours. The use of AI is indispensable for the analysis of such big data, and a large amount of training data is required for reliable analysis. Researchers in Japan and France are continuing their research activities on seasonal changes in the singing voice of the warbler. To accomplish this international research activity, a high-speed communication line and a high-speed computer are required for this acquisition and analysis. Therefore, we have been participating NII's SINET Wide Area Data Collection Infrastructure Demonstration Testing since 2018. Also, we are planning to participate in the mdx project from 2021.

Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, 2020.

Honorable Mention, European Product Design Award, USA, 2020.

Winner, Responsible Design, DNA Paris Design Awards, France, 2020.

Winner, International Design Awards, USA, 2020.

Winner, IAUD International Design Award 2019, Japan, 2019.

Honorable Mention, Creative Communication Award, USA, 2019.

Winner, Communications Design, DFA Design for Asia Awards, Hong Kong, 2018.

Winner, Good Design Best 100, Good Design Award, Japan, 2018.

Winner, Interface and Interaction Design Category, A’ Design Award, Italia, 2018.

Winner, Excellent Communications Design, German Design Award, Germany, 2018.

Semi Grand Prix, Third IoT Lab Selection, The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the IoT Acceleration Lab, Japan, 2017.

Overall Winner, 11th Arte Laguna Prize exhibition, Venice, Italia, 2017.

Accepted for The University of Tokyo New York Office Exhibition, 2021.

Accepted for ACM SIGGRAPH DAC Online Exhibition, 2018.

Accepted for ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA art exhibition, Japan, 2018.

Accepted for ACM SIGCHI art Exhibition, 2017.

National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Japan, 2017.

Dependable Wildlife DTN: Wearable Animal Resource Optimization for Sustainable Long-term Monitoring, In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys 2020), Fiji, 2020.

Optimal Arrangement of Wearable Devices Based on Lifespan of Animals as Device Transporter Materials for Long-Term Monitoring of Wildlife Animal Sensor Network, Sensors and Materials, Volume 32, Number 1(1), 2020. (doi:10.18494/SAM.2020.2560).

A Real-Time Streaming and Identification System for Bioacoustic Ecological Studies after the Fukushima Accident, the Nature's 150th Anniversary Symposium ”The Future of Japanese Science”, Tokyo, March 2019.

Comparison of User Listening Attitude for Birdsongs Recorded in Fukushima Restricted Area to Prepare Training Data for AI, In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2019), USA, 2019.(doi: 110.1007/978-3-030-21935-2_29) .

Radioactive live soundscape, In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques ASIA (ACM SIGRAPH ASIA 2018), Tokyo, 2018. (doi:10.1145/3282805.3282813).

A Real-Time Streaming and Identification System for Bio-acoustic Ecological Studies after the Fukushima Accident, Multimedia Technologies for Environmental & Biodiversity Informatics, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, pp.53-66,2018. (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-76445-0_4).

Animal-to-Animal Data Sharing Mechanism for Wildlife Monitoring in Fukushima Exclusion Zone. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. Volume 2, Number 3, pp.40-, 2018. (doi: 10.3390/mti2030040) .

HCI Interventions for Monitoring Environmental Health, In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI EA ’18), Quebec, 2018. (doi:10.1145/3170427.3186486).

HCI Interventions for Science Communication, In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI EA ’18), Quebec, 2018. (doi:10.1145/3170427.3174357) .

Radioactive Soundscape project, In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2017), Vancouver, 2017.(doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-58697-7_22) .

Fukushima Audio Census, In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA.2017. (doi:10.1145/3027063.3052546) .

Acoustic Ecology Data Transmitter in Exclusion Zone, 10km from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, LEONARDO / Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (MIT Press), Volume 50, Issue 2, pp.188-189, 2017. (doi:10.1162/LEON_a_01416).

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Joint Research Projects/Seminars, (2020-2021).

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research, (2019-2021).

Tateisi Science and Technology Foundation, Research Grant (S) (2018-2021).

The University of Tokyo Grant for International Research (2018-2019).

NEDO Development Projects Focused on Realizing the IoT Society (2017).

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research (2016-2017).

JST Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO) (2015-2018).

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) (2014-2016).

Tateisi Science and Technology Foundation (2015).

Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (2015, 2018-2019).

Artificial Intelligence Research Promotion Foundation (2014).

The Ogasawara Foundation for the Promotion of Science & Engineering (2014).

MIC Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE) (2014, 2015-2016, 2016-2017).

The Mitsubishi Foundation (2014).

Hatakeyma Culture Foundation (2014).

The Moritani Scholarship Foundation (2014, 2015-2018).

The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications (2013-2014).