The university's WPI - Advanced Institute for Materials
Research, renowned for its work on metallic glasses, polymers and nanodevices, has
lost ¥ 1 billion (US$ 12.5 million) of
equipment, and the cost is likely to increase when the damage is assessed in detail, says Yoshinori Yamamoto, the institute's director.
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