University of Tōkyō

The University of Tōkyō (東京大学; Tōkyō Daigaku , usually shortened in 東大 Tōdai ) is generally classified like the most prestigious university of Japan.

University has 5 campus distributed in Tōkyō (in Hongo, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano) and breaks up into 10 faculties, adding up about 28.000 pupils whose 2.100 foreigners (strong proportion for Japan, which has only 1,3% from abroad in his population) and includes/understands a university hospital and a hospital of research, also called Institut of medical science.

Although the near total of the academic disciplines are taught there, Tōdai is particularly known for its literature and Faculty of Law. This university produced many members of the Japanese political elite, although the power of the school gradually declined. For example, the rate of former students of Tōdai among the various Japanese Prime Ministers was of two out of three, one out of two, one out of four, one out of five and one out of six respectively during the Années 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990. The university of Tōkyō is largely perceived like most prestigious in many fields, its rivals being the Université of Kyōto, which is like it a national university, the Université Waseda and the Université Keiō, which are two private universities. It is a keystone of the Education system in Japan. It also forms part of the Tōkyō 6, tournaments of baseball which oppose the large universities of Tōkyō (Hōsei, Keiō, Meiji, Rikkyō, Tōdai, Waseda).

The principal campus of Hongo occupies the old residence of the family Maeda, family having reigned on the field of Kaga lasting the Edo era. The most known place of the university is Akamon (the red door), relic of this time. The symbol of Tōdai is the sheet of Ginkgo, from the abundance of these trees within this zone.

The university was rested by the Meiji government in 1877 pennies its current name by linking old governmental schools of medicine and Western teaching. It was re-elected in imperial University (帝國大學 Teikoku Daigaku ) in 1886 then in imperial University of Tōkyō (東京帝國大學 Tōkyō Teikoku Daigaku ) in 1887 when the system of imperial universities was created. In 1947, after the defeat of Japan, it recovered its original name. With the launching of the new system of universities in 1949, Tōdai absorbed Ichiko (First Higher School) which is the campus of Komaba today, and Tokyo Higher School, which then assumed the teaching of the pupils of first and second years, faculties of the campus of teaching Hongo to the pupils of third and fourth years.

Since 2004, the university became, by the means of a new law applying at all the national universities, a company of national university. In spite of this change which increased its autonomy, in particular financial, the university of Tōkyō is always partially controlled by the Japanese Minister of education (Monbukagakusho, but Monkasho).

International exchanges

Tōdai is related to many schools and foreign universities, and generally adopts a policy more directed towards the offer than towards the exchange. The University of Tōkyō belongs to the network LAOTSE.

Doctoral faculties and schools

Faculties

  • Right
  • Medicine
  • Engineering
  • Literature
  • Sciences
  • Agriculture
  • Economy
  • Arts and Sciences
  • Education
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences

Doctoral schools

  • Right and Politique
  • Medicine
  • Engineering
  • Humanity and Agriculture and Sociologie
  • Sciences
  • Life sciences
  • Economy
  • Arts and Sciences
  • Education
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Mathematical Sciences
  • Sciences of point
  • Sciences and Technologies the Information
  • Study of Interdisciplinary Information
  • Law and order

Research institutes

  • Institute of Medical sciences
  • Research institute on the Earthquakes
  • Institute of Eastern Culture
  • Institute of Social sciences
  • Institute of Socio-Information and Studies in Communication
  • Institute of Industrial Sciences
  • Institute of Historiography
  • Institute of Cellular Biosciences Molecular and
  • Institute for Research on the Cosmic rays
  • Institute for the Physics of the Solid States
  • Oceanographical Research institute

University classification

selon the institute of higher education of the University Shanghai Jiao Tong, in China.
  1. University of Tokyo
  2. University of Kyoto
  3. Australian National university
  4. University of Osaka
  5. University of Hebraic Tohoku
  6. University of Jerusalem
  7. University of Melbourne
  8. Tokyo Institute off Technology

Professors at the University of Tōkyō

Former students emblematic

Prime Ministers

Writers

Scientists

  • Keiiti Aki, seismologist
  • Kiyoshi Itō, mathematician
  • Esaki Leona, physicist, Nobel Prize of Physique 1973
  • Koshiba Masatoshi, physicist, Nobel Prize

Others

  • Toshihiko Fukui, governor of the Bank of Japan
  • Tadatoshi Akiba, mayor of Hiroshima
  • Ong Iok-teak, linguist
  • Masako Owada, Princess
  • Toyoda Eiji, industrialist
  • Suzuki Daisetsu, Buddhist disciple
  • Kiyozawa Manshi, Buddhist thinker
  • Watsuji Tetsuro, philosopher
  • Koïchiro Matsuura, managing director of UNESCO

University of Tōkyō in the fictions

  • In the Manga and Animates Love Hina , the main character, Keitaro Urashima, is a Ronin which missed the examination by entry for Tōdai.
  • the teacher Suguru Teshigawara, obnubilated by one of his/her colleagues, of the Manga and Animates Great Teacher Onizuka , slack constantly its possession of a diploma of the University of Tōkyō (obtained without examination!), compared with Onizuka, resulting from a university of 5th zone.
  • In the manga Golden delicious Servant boy , Kintarō, the hero, is student there in right.
  • In the manga Death Notes and animates it same name, Yagami Light, the main character, is a brilliant high-school pupil who arrives major at the examination of entry at the university of Tōdai. It will make there as of the first day a meeting which will upset the scenario of the manga. (N.B: this anecdote does not reflect of anything the basic scenario Death Note , whose main theme is very different. It is retranscribed here in the most subjective possible way to avoid any risk of Spoiler which would remove interest with the Manga).

See too

External bonds

  • University off Tōkyō
  • Universities of the world: Tōdai

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