Waseda university

the University Waseda ( Waseda Daigaku ; or Sōdai in summary) is one of the two more prestigious private universities of the Japan with the Université Keiō, competitors of the two more prestigious national universities: the University of Tōkyō and the University of Kyōto. Waseda Daigaku is located in the northern part of the district Shinjuku at Tōkyō.

It belongs to the Tōkyō 6, tournaments of baseball which oppose the large universities of Tōkyō (Hōsei, Keiō, Meiji, Rikkyō, Tōdai, Waseda).

History

The school was founded by Shigenobu Ōkuma, young man intended by his family to become Samurai, in 1882. She became university with whole share in 1902. The major part of the campus was destroyed during the bombardment of Tōkyō during the Second world war, but the university was rebuilt and reopened in 1949.

The programme of literature of Waseda is particularly famous and counts Haruki Murakami and Tawara Machi among its former students. Joyu Fumihiro, the chief of the sect Alpeh (known in the past under the name of Aum Shinrikyo) is also resulting from Waseda, where he studied the artificial intelligence.

Waseda is also recognized like a training ground for the Japanese politicians. Five Prime Ministers world post-war are the old ones of Waseda. Among the last ten Prime Ministers, three result from Waseda, two of the Université Keiō, one of the Université of Tōkyō and zero of the Université of Kyōto. The socialist leader Suzuki Mosaburo was also old of Waseda.

A victim of the Attacks of September 11th, 2001 named Toshiya Kuge (page of the Memorial Wikipédia), which was one of the passengers of the Vol 93 of United Airlines, was student of this university.

Sōdai was recently implied in the development of the robot going WL-16.

Concerning the stereotypes on Waseda and Keiō, most frequently heard are that the pupils of Waseda, although overall easy financially, tend to be much more ribalds and ground-with-ground that those going in Keiō. The women going with Keiō are in particular often designated like ojō-sama , “  princesses  ”.

Doctoral faculties and schools

Faculties

  • Political sciences and Économie
  • Right
  • Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Education
  • Trade
  • Sciences and Ingénierie
  • Social sciences
  • Social sciences
  • Sciences of the sport
  • liberal International studies

Doctoral schools

  • Political sciences
  • Economy
  • Right
  • Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Trade
  • Science and Ingénierie
  • Education
  • Social sciences
  • Studies the Asia-Pacific
  • Studies on total Information and Telecommunications
  • Linguistic steady Japanese woman
  • Information, Production and Systems

Vocational schools

  • School of administration of businesses (business)
  • Public administration
  • Right
  • Finance, Accounts Department and Right
  • Accounts Department

Former students emblematic

Prime Ministers

Politicians

  • Makiko Tanaka
  • Masahide Removed
  • Mikio Aoki ( returned )
  • Suzuki Mosaburo
  • Taku Yamasaki
  • Yohei Kono

Monk

Diplomats

  • Chiune Sugihara ( returned )
  • Katsuhiko Oku

Historians

  • Kanichi Asakawa

Major heads of undertakings

Authors

Sportsmen

  • Hiroaki Shukuzawa (rugby player)
  • Kisshomaru Ueshiba (former director of the Aïkikaï, régentant the Aikido)
  • Shizuka Arakawa (skater on ice)
  • Takuma Sato ( returned ) (pilot of racing racing car - Formula 1)

Others

French

Surrounding zones

The principal campus of the Waseda University is logically localized in the Waseda district of Shinjuku, although Waseda is generally associated with the station of Métro of Tōkyō Takadanobaba on the line Yamanote. With a stop of Waseda on the line Tozai Kagurazaka is, which was the center of the Geisha S of Tōkyō. It is now a gathering place of excellent French and Japanese restaurants.

In the North-West of the university Ikebukuro, the second most used station of Tōkyō is.

With a stop of Takadanobaba on the line Yamanote Mejiro is. A true oasis of calm and beauty enters the stations to the vibrating activity of Takadanobaba and Ikebukuro. Mejiro is also adjacent with the Université Gakushuin.

Competitions of Sports

The Waseda-Keiō match of 1922 was the first match of Rugby school inter-institutions.

The match of baseball which is held twice a year is perhaps the most usual demonstration of the competition between Waseda and the Université Keiō. It is always held with the Stade Jingu and is regarded as the most important competition by the two bodies estudantins.

Waseda and Keiō organize a régatte éponyme, regarded as one of the three large régattes with Oxford-Cambridge and Harvard-Yale.

Waseda university in the fictions

Professor Fuyutsuki, colleague of Onizuka in Great Teacher Onizuka , is graduate University Waseda in literature, the most famous die.

In the novel Tokyo of Mo Hayder, professor Shi Chongming, which is the only holder of the video cassette showing the massacre of Nankin (China) pépétré by the Japanese in December 1937, is in 1990 professor of sociology at the university of Waseda. The principal heroin of the book places as for it in the Takadanobaba district, near this university.

External bonds

  • Official site of the Waseda University in English

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