Toyo University

The Toyo University (Japanese东洋 大学, Toyo daigaku ) is a private university in Tokyo, Japan.

History

The history of Toyo University begins in 1887 with the founding of the first Philosophical Institute in Japan, in the temple Rinsho - in. The founder of the institute, the Shiritsu Tetsugakukan (私立 哲学 馆) was Inoue Enryō (​​井上 円 了) ( 1859-1919 ), a pupil of the German philosopher Raphael of Koeber. In 1906, the Institute moved out of the temple and was later renamed by Tetsugakukan in private university Tetsugakukan, Toyo University. At this time, although the thought world of Christianity or Buddhism could be studied in many philosophical schools in Japan, but the University of Tokyo as well as the later founded the Imperial Universities were based initially on a non-religious system.

Campus and faculties

Today's Toyo University has eight graduate programs ( graduate schools ) and eight faculties ( undergraduate Faculties ) approximately 29,000 students ( as of 2005). The campus of the university is divided into four prefectures and cities:

• Hakusan campus in Bunkyō, Tokyo Prefecture,
• Asaka campus in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture,
• Kawagoe campus in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture and the
• Itakura Campus in Itakura, Ora County, Gunma Prefecture.

Courses

The motto of the Toyo University, is " the foundation of all learning is the philosophy." A figure of Moomin philosophy friendly to embody this principle as a mascot for the students.

Only at the Toyo University Indian philosophy is outside India and offered in Japan only offers the Toyo University of Chinese philosophy as a field of study at.

The department for international tourism with international faculty was established in 1963 and deals with the history of tourism in Japan.

Partnerships

With many universities consist exchange and cooperation programs in Germany with the Philipps University in Marburg.