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University of Tokyo
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The University of Tokyo, often abbreviated simply as Todai is a major research school in Tokyo, Japan. The school consists of 10 separate facilities with 30,000 students, of which 2,000 are foreign. Five separate campuses exists in Hongo, Kashiwa, Komaba, Shirokane, and Nakano. The University of Tokyo is currently rated as one of the highest rated universities in Asia.
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History
The University of Tokyo was founded in 1877 by the Meiji government as an attempt to reincorporate old schools into new sources of western style learning and medical training. The name was the Tokyo Imperial University for much of its existence between 1877 and 1945 when it was renamed following the Second World War. The school has become best known for its departments in law, the natural sciences, and literature.
Additionally, multiple award winners of the Nobel Prize and other prestigious awards have been faculty of the University of Tokyo, a contentious aspect that often pits the school at odds with the University of Tokyo, another of the original 7 schools converted under the Imperial System in 1877.
Faculties
The ten faculties currently served by the University of Tokyo include:
- Law
- Medicine
- Letters
- Engineering
- Science
- Economics
- Agriculture
- Arts and Sciences
- Education
- Pharmaceutical Sciences
Additionally, the University is home to 15 Graduate schools, including:
- Humanities and Sociology
- Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Mathematical Sciences
- Frontier Sciences
- Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Medicine
- Arts and Sciences
- Education
- Law and Politics
- Science
- Information Science and Technology
- Economics
- Engineering
- Interdisciplinary Information Studies
- Public Policy
Campus
The main campus for the University of Tokyo is the Hongo campus, the former Maeda family residence, home to the family during the Edo period for lords of the Kaga Province. The Red Gate is a relic of the Edo Period and the campus is full of Ginkgo trees, resulting in the leafs use as the symbol of the university.