University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo (東京大学 Tōkyō daigaku?), abbreviated as Todai (東大 Tōdai?),could be a analysis university placed in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The university has ten schools with a complete of around thirty 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom area unit foreign. Its 5 campuses area unit in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. it's the primary of Japan's National Seven Universities. It ranks because the highest in Asia and twenty first within the world in step with the educational Ranking of World Universities 2015. The University of Tokyo is wide thought of to be the foremost prestigious university in Japan.
The university was leased by the Meiji government in 1877 underneath its current name by amalgamating older government faculties for drugs and Western learning. it had been renamed "the Imperial University (帝國大學 Teikoku daigaku?)" in 1886, then Tokyo Imperial University (東京帝國大學 Tōkyō teikoku daigaku?) in 1897 once the Imperial University system was created. In Sept 1923, AN earthquake and also the following fires destroyed concerning 700,000 volumes of the Imperial University Library.The books lost enclosed the Hoshino Library (星野文庫 Hoshino bunko?), a group of concerning ten,000 books. The books were the previous possessions of Hoshino Hisashi before changing into a part of the library of the university and were chiefly concerning Chinese philosophy and history.

In 1947, when Japan's defeat in war II, it re-assumed its original name. With the beginning of the new university system in 1949, Todai engulfed up the previous initial Higher faculty (today's Komaba campus) and also the former Tokyo Higher faculty, that thereafter assumed the duty of teaching first- and intermediate undergraduates, whereas the schools on Hongo main field took care of third- and last students.

Although the university was supported throughout the Meiji amount, it's earlier roots within the physics Agency (天文方; 1684), Shoheizaka Study workplace (昌平坂学問所; 1797), and also the Western Books Translation Agency (蕃書和解御用; 1811). These establishments were government offices established by the 徳川幕府 Tokugawa Stalinism (1603–1867), and vie a crucial role within the importation and translation of books from Europe.

Kikuchi Dairoku, a crucial figure in Japanese education, served as president of Tokyo Imperial University.

For the 1964 Summer Olympiad, the university hosted the running portion of the trendy athletic contest event.

On twenty January 2012, Todai declared that it might shift the start of its school year from April to Sept to align its calendar with the international normal. The shift would be phased in over 5 years.

According to the Japan Times, the university had one,282 professors in Feb 2012. Of those, fifty eight were ladies.

In the fall of 2012 and for the primary time, the University of Tokyo started 2 undergrad programs entirely instructed in English and meshed toward international students — Programs in English at Komaba (PEAK) — the International Program on Japan in East Asia and also the International Program on Environmental Sciences.