University of Tokyo

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The University of Tokyo (Japanese东京 大学, Tōkyō Daigaku, abbreviated :东 大, Todai ) is generally considered the university in Japan considered the most prestigious.

The University has five campuses and ten faculties with a total of about 28,000 students, of whom 2,100 are foreigners. Although virtually every academic branch is taught at the Todai, it is known for its law and literature faculties. Many important Japanese politicians are graduates of Todai.

The main campus is located on the premises on which the Edo period, the Kaga Yashiki, the city residence of the Mori, feudal lords of Kanazawa was. The most famous entrance to the university campus, the Akamon (赤 门, dt " Red Gate " ), is a remnant of this period. The residence was also surrounded by green pond on a novel by Natsume Soseki is called Sanshiro Pond today. The symbol of the university is the ginkgo flower because of the many trees on campus.

History

The university was founded by the Meijiregierung as University of Tokyo in April 1877, the faculties of law, natural and social sciences from the previous Tōkyō Kaisei Gakko (东京 开 成 学校, dt " Kaisei School Tokyo " ) and the Faculty of Medicine from the Igakkō Tōkyō (东京 医 学校, dt ' School of Medicine Tokyo " ) were formed. The Tōkyō Kaisei Gakko in turn went to the 1811 founded Bansho Shirabejo (蕃 书 调 所, dt about "investigative authority for foreign publications" ) under stood back that which was founded in 1684 Temmonkata (天文 方, dt " Astronomy Office"), and the Tōkyō Igakkō arose from the Shutōjo founded in 1858 (种痘 所, dt about: " pox [ impf ] authority "). Another predecessor bank was founded in 1797 on the site of Yushima Seido Confucian educational institution Shōheizaka Gakumonjo (昌平 坂 学问 所, dt as: " Academy Shōheizaka ").

Especially the work of German physicians in establishing the School of Medicine is still remembered today. The language of instruction was German at first, the textbooks were written a long time in German. The doctors Erwin Bälz and Julius Scriba received in his lifetime a common monument on campus.

In 1886, the University was renamed Tokyo in first Imperial University (帝国 大学, Teikoku Daigaku ) and then only university in Japan and 1897 with the founding of Kyoto University as a second Imperial University in Tokyo Imperial University (东京 帝国 大学, Tōkyō Teikoku Daigaku ). By the end of the Second World War, there were a total of nine imperial universities. In 1947, after the defeat of Japan in World War II, the university got her first name.

1923, the university was severely damaged by the Great Kanto Earthquake. The Rockefeller Foundation gave funds for reconstruction. The buildings from this time clearly show a British college style.

The University of Tokyo is a member of the university networks Association of Pacific Rim Universities ( APRU ), Association of East Asian Research Universities ( AEARU ) and BESETOHA (jointly with Peking University, Seoul National University and Hanoi University ). Since 2006, the University is one of them at the University Group International Alliance of Research Universities ( IARU ).

Locations

  • Hongo Campus ( Bunkyō, Tōkyō Prefecture)
  • Komaba Campus ( Meguro, Tōkyō Prefecture)
  • Kashiwa Campus (Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture)
  • Shirokane Campus ( Minato Ward, Tōkyō Prefecture )
  • Nakano Campus ( Nakano, Tōkyō Prefecture)

Faculties

Today, the University of Tokyo has ten faculties:

  • Medicine
  • Engineering
  • Humanities
  • Natural sciences
  • Agricultural Sciences
  • Economics
  • Liberal Arts
  • Education
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Law

The Faculty of Liberal Arts students visit every two years, some students stay there for inter-disciplinary studies. She has five locations, but most students attend two of them: first two years the Komaba Campus and after two years the Hongo campus.

The university also has many research institutes in Japan, many former research institutes of the University of Tokyo are independent institutions today.

Graduates

Many well-known Japanese completed their studies at the University of Tokyo. Crown Princess Masako enrolled after completing their studies at Harvard University as a student of the Law Faculty. But after a year she had to withdraw from the university, as they had passed the state exams for a diplomat. Her father Hisashi Owada, now judge of the International Court of Justice, was a graduate of the Law Faculty.

Other graduates are, for example, ( Surname first):

  • Judges of the International Court of Justice: Shigeru Oda, Tanaka Kotaro (also professor there )
  • Prime Minister: Kishi Nobusuke, Miyazawa Kiichi, Nakasone Yasuhiro, Satō Eisaku ( Nobel Peace Prize 1974), Yoshida Shigeru
  • Scientists: Bunji Sakita ( theoretical physicist ), Esaki Reona ( Nobel Laureate in Physics 1973), Hasumi Shigehiko ( former Rector, cultural studies ), Itō Kiyoshi ( mathematician ), Kikkawa Keiji ( theoretical physicist ), Kunihiko Kodaira ( Fields medalist 1954), Kondō Jun ( theoretical physicist ), Masatoshi Koshiba ( Nobel Laureate in Physics 2002), Takeshi Sasaki (now Rector, political science ), Yoichiro Nambu ( Nobel Laureate in Physics 2008), Yoro Takeshi (former professor of the medical faculty, in addition also a writer of bestsellers )
  • Writer: Yasunari Kawabata ( Nobel laureate 1968), Mori Ogai, Natsume Soseki (known as the image on the 1000 yen bill ), Ōe Kenzaburo ( Nobel laureate 1994)
  • Other: Horie Takafumi (Chairman of Livedoor ), Nishida Kitaro (philosopher ), Inoue Kiyoshi ( historian ), Ōkawa Shumei (yet at times the Imperial University of Tokyo), Takahata Isao (Director), Takata Mayuko (actress ), Uekusa Kazuhide (economist ), Takashi Yuasa (International lawyer), Nobuchika Mamine (International lawyer)
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