Tohoku University (TU) has been actively promoting various new educational projects worthy of a leading world-class university. It has been selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) to develop large scale national educational programs with strong governmental support.
Now various programs are being undertaking such as the following:

Super Global University project (SGU)

http://www.jsps.go.jp/j-sgu/kekka.html (in Japanese)

SGU is a project funded by the Japanese government, which began in 2014. The project aims to enhance the globalization of the country's public and private universities so that graduates can "walk into positions of global leadership". Tohoku University is one of 13 universities selected as the “Top Type” (for world-class universities which have the potential to be ranked in the top 100 of world universities rankings) SGU .

National Program for Leading Graduate Schools

http://www.jsps.go.jp/j-hakasekatei/saitaku.html (in Japanese)

Organization for Leading Graduate School Program of Tohoku University
http://lgs.tohoku.ac.jp/ (in Japanese)

Two programs at School of Engineering, Tohoku University have been selected.

*Inter-Graduate School of Doctoral Degree Program on Science for global safety
http://g-safety.tohoku.ac.jp/en/about/purpose/

*Interdepartmental Doctoral Degree Program for Multi-dimensional materials science leaders
http://m-dimension.tohoku.ac.jp/eng/

Tohoku University Global Leader program (TGL)

(Selected as the MEXT Project for Promotion of Global Human Resource Development)
http://tgl.tohoku.ac.jp/ (in Japanese)

Future Global Leadership program (FGL)

(Fully English taught degree program: 3 undergraduate courses, 13 graduate courses)
http://www.fgl.tohoku.ac.jp/