Hosei University

Hosei University (法政大学 Hōsei daigaku?) is a accepted clandestine university based in Tokyo, Japan.
The university originated in a academy of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha (東京法学社, i.e. Tokyo affiliation of law), accustomed in 1880, and the afterward year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō (東京法学校, i.e. Tokyo academy of law). This was from 1883 headed by Dr. Gustave Emile Boissonade, and was heavily afflicted by the French acknowledged tradition. It alloyed in 1889 with a academy of French studies, Tōkyō Futsugakkō (東京仏学校, i.e. Tokyo French school), that had been founded three years earlier. It adopted the name Hosei University (法政大学, Hōsei daigaku, i.e. Tokyo university of law and politics) in 1903 and was accustomed as a clandestine university in 1920.
Other notable abstracts complex in its foundation cover Dr. Masaaki Tomii, and Dr. Ume Kenjirō, "Father of the Japanese Civil Code".
In addition, Hosei University belongs to Tokyo Big6 Baseball League. The alliance is one of the a lot of acceptable academy sports leagues in Japan. Hosei University is accepted for top academy students. Hosei University got 3rd in the amount of applicants a part of Japanese universities in 2008, 2009 and 2011(92,819). Hosei University ranked 100 at Global Executives 2013 top 100 by The Times Higher Education.Hosei has three capital campuses, which it calls Ichigaya, Koganei, and Tama. The Ichigaya campus is center amid Ichigaya and Iidabashi stations in axial Tokyo; its 26-story Boissonade Tower, completed in 2000, can be apparent from either station. The campus has a city-limits flavour but is still somewhat abandoned from axial Tokyo; the adjacent attendance of Yasukuni Shrine aswell contributes.
Sciences are advised at the Koganei campus to the west of Tokyo, and added capacity are breach amid Tama, which is abreast Hachiōji, and Ichigaya.

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Doshisha University

Doshisha University (同志社大学 Dōshisha daigaku?), aswell referred to as Dodai (同大 Dōdai?), is a clandestine university in Kyoto City, Japan. Accustomed in 1875, it is one of the oldest clandestine institutions of college acquirements in Japan, and has about 30,000 acceptance enrolled on four altered campuses in Kyoto. It is one of the Japanese "Global 30" universities and one of the "Kankandoritsu," a accumulation of the four arch clandestine universities in the Kansai arena of western Japan.
Doshisha was founded by Joseph Hardy Neesima as "Doshisha English School", and in 1920 it was accepted university status. The university now encompasses 14 commonsense and 16 alum schools with abundant affiliated institutions including Doshisha Women's College of Avant-garde Arts.Doshisha University was founded in 1875 as Doshisha English Academy by Protestant drillmaster Niijima Jō (also accepted as Joseph Hardy Neesima), as a academy to beforehand Christian apprenticeship in Japan. As a adolescent man, Niijima larboard Japan for the United States in 1864, admitting the ban on across biking again imposed on Japanese nationals. He advised at Phillips Academy and Amherst College, and alternate to Japan in 1874. The next year, Niijima accustomed the Doshisha Academy with the abetment of Canadian Methodist missionary G. G. Cochran. Niijima served as admiral of the university from 1875 to 1890. Other aboriginal university presidents included drillmaster and columnist Yamamoto Kakuma (1890–1892), Seito Saibara (1899–1902) who was the aboriginal Christian affiliate of the Japanese Diet, and arresting actinic architect Kotaro Shimomura (1904-1907).
By 1920, Doshisha was accepted university cachet and developed into a full-fledged university in the Anglo-American bookish tradition. During World War II, its barrio were accustomed Japanese names and its class was bare of its pro-Western elements. The prewar altitude were adequate afterwards the abandonment of Japan. The aboriginal alum amount programs were instituted in 1953.
Amherst College has maintained a abutting accord with Doshisha University, and back 1972, Doshisha has collaborated with a bunch of American avant-garde arts colleges including Amherst to host the Associated Kyoto Program, an 8-month continued abstraction away affairs offered every year to acceptance from American colleges and universities. Doshisha aswell houses the Kyoto Bunch for Japanese Studies, addition affairs affiliated with American universities and centered on avant-garde Japanese accent training.Doshisha University has two capital campuses at Imadegawa in axial Kyoto and at Kyotanabe in southern Kyoto. Imadegawa is the capital campus, amid in the above abode of Satsuma Domain. It has been in use back the academy was founded. Amid in the centermost of Kyoto City, the campus is anchored next to Shōkoku-ji, overlooking Kyoto Imperial Palace. Five barrio in the Imadegawa campus accept been appointed as Important Cultural Properties of Japan, including Doshisha Chapel and Clark Memorial Hall. This campus is primarily for the avant-garde arts, business (including a alum academy of business), theology, and law faculties. A ample acquirements commons　with over 40,000 aboveboard meters of space, the Ryoshinkan, was opened in 2012 and included the assimilation of Imadegawa Station, a base on the Karasuma Line of the Kyoto Municipal Subway

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Keio University

Keio University (慶應義塾大学 Keiō Gijuku Daigaku?), abbreviated as Keio (慶應?) or Keidai (慶大?), is a Japanese university amid in Minato, Tokyo. It is accepted as the oldest convention of college apprenticeship in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally accustomed it as a academy for Western studies in 1858 in Edo (now Tokyo). It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa. It has ten faculties: Letters, Economics, Law, Business and Commerce, Medicine, Science and Technology, Policy Management, Ambiance and Information Studies, Nursing and Medical Care, and Pharmacy.
The alumni cover Japanese prime ministers and arresting political, administrative, legal, medical and accumulated leaders. Keio ranks 3rd in the apple for the amount of alumni captivation CEO positions in Fortune Global 500 companies. It aswell ranks 9th in the apple in the Times College Education's Alma Mater Index. It ranks 34th globally in the Center for Apple University Rankings (CWUR). Keio is ranked at 58th of the Reuters Top 100 avant-garde universities common in 2015.
In the United States, Keio has a top academy alleged "Keio Academy of New York". The university is one of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's thirteen "Global 30" Project universities.Keio traces its history to 1858 if Fukuzawa Yukichi, who had advised the Western educational arrangement at Brown University in the United States, started to advise Dutch while he was a bedfellow of the Okudaira family. In 1868 he afflicted the name of the academy to Keio Gijuku and adherent all his time to education. While Keiō's antecedent character was that of a clandestine academy of Western studies, it broadcast and accustomed its aboriginal university adroitness in 1890, and became accepted as a arch convention in Japanese college education. It was the aboriginal Japanese university to ability its 150th anniversary, adulatory this ceremony in 2008.
In 2009, Keio University was alleged as one of "Global 30" universities, a government affairs "which is aimed at elevating... all-embracing competitiveness a part of the world's top universities and at creating an adorable ambiance for across students, while adopting acceptance and advisers able of arena alive all-embracing roles."
Keio has arch analysis centers. It has about 30 Analysis Centers amid on its 5 capital campuses and at added accessories for avant-garde analysis in Japan Keio's Academy of Medicine has abiding analysis links with the Harvard Medical School.Keio University has abutting the MIT and the French INRIA in hosting the all-embracing W3C.Learning bisected and teaching bisected (半学半教 Hangaku Hankyo?) is the added different ability in Keio. During the backward Edo aeon and the aboriginal Meiji period, several clandestine basic schools generally acclimated acceptance as abettor agents and it was alleged "Learning bisected and teaching half". Keio aswell had initially acclimated this system. In the aboriginal aeon of such schools of Western studies, there had been abounding things to apprentice not alone for acceptance but aswell advisers themselves. Hence there had been sometimes the occasions that acceptance who had abstruse in beforehand had accomplished added acceptance and even professors. After the able acknowledged systems for apprenticeship had been set up, those situations accept disappeared. However, Fukuzawa anticipation the aspect of academia was and is a connected learning, and alive added things provides added acquirements opportunities. Keio respects his anticipation and put the aphorism in "Rules in Keio Gijuku (慶應義塾社中之約束 Keio Gijuku Shachu no Yakusoku?)" that there shouldn't be any bureaucracy amid agents and learners, and all of the humans in Keio Gijuku are in the aforementioned company. For this reason, there is still a ability in this university that all advisers and advisers are clearly alleged with the honorific of "Kun" but never "Teacher" or "Professor".

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University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo (東京大学 Tōkyō daigaku?), abbreviated as Todai (東大 Tōdai?),[3] is a analysis university amid in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The university has 10 commonsense with a absolute of about 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its 5 campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is the aboriginal of Japan's National Seven Universities.[4][5] It ranks as the accomplished in Asia and 21st in the apple according to the Bookish Ranking of Apple Universities 2014. The University of Tokyo is broadly advised to be the a lot of celebrated university in Japan.[6][7]The university was accountant by the Meiji government in 1877 beneath its accepted name by amalgamating beforehand government schools for anesthetic and Western learning. It was renamed "the Imperial University (帝國大學 Teikoku daigaku?)" in 1886, and again Tokyo Imperial University (東京帝國大學 Tōkyō teikoku daigaku?) in 1897 if the Imperial University arrangement was created. In September 1923, an convulsion and the afterward fires destroyed about 700,000 volumes of the Imperial University Library. The books absent included the Hoshino Library (星野文庫 Hoshino bunko?), a accumulating of about 10,000 books. The books were the above backing of Hoshino Hisashi afore acceptable allotment of the library of the university and were mainly about Chinese aesthetics and history.
In 1947, afterwards Japan's defeat in Apple War II, it re-assumed its aboriginal name. With the alpha of the new university arrangement in 1949, Todai swallowed up the above Aboriginal Higher School (today's Komaba campus) and the above Tokyo Higher School, which accordingly affected the assignment of teaching first- and second-year undergraduates, while the commonsense on Hongo capital campus took affliction of third- and fourth-year students.
Although the university was founded during the Meiji period, it has beforehand roots in the Astronomy Agency (天文方; 1684), Shoheizaka Study Office (昌平坂学問所; 1797), and the Western Books Adaptation Agency (蕃書和解御用; 1811). These institutions were government offices accustomed by the 徳川幕府 Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1867), and played an important role in the access and adaptation of books from Europe.
Kikuchi Dairoku, an important amount in Japanese education, served as admiral of Tokyo Imperial University.
For the 1964 Summer Olympics, the university hosted the active allocation of the avant-garde pentathlon event.
On 20 January 2012, Todai appear that it would about-face the alpha of its bookish year from April to September to adjust its agenda with the all-embracing standard. The about-face would be phased in over 5 years.
According to the Japan Times, the university had 1,282 advisers in February 2012. Of those, 58 were women.
In the abatement of 2012 and for the aboriginal time, the University of Tokyo started two undergraduate programs absolutely accomplished in English and geared against all-embracing acceptance — Programs in English at Komaba (PEAK) — the All-embracing Program on Japan in East Asia and the All-embracing Program on Environmental Sciences.

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Waseda University

Waseda University (早稲田大学 Waseda Daigaku?), abbreviated as Sōdai (早大?), is a clandestine university mainly amid in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. As the additional clandestine university to be founded in Japan, Waseda University is advised to be one of Japan's a lot of acclaimed universities, consistently baronial amidst the top universities in Japanese university rankings. The university has abounding notable alumni in Japan, with seven Prime Ministers of Japan and abounding CEOs, including Tadashi Yanai, the CEO of UNIQLO.
Established in 1882 as the Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō or Tōkyō Academy by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the academy was renamed Waseda University in 1902 afterwards the founder's hometown village. The university consists of 13 undergraduate schools and 23 alum schools, and is one of the 13 universities in the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's "Global 30" Project.
The university holds a announcement of acceding with Cambridge University, the University of Hong Kong, and Yale University a part of its 432 affiliation institutions in 79 countries.The university was founded by samurai academic and Meiji-era baby-kisser and above prime abbot Ōkuma Shigenobu in 1882, and was appointed as a abounding university in 1902. It started as a academy with three departments beneath the old Japanese arrangement of college education.
In 1882, the university had the administration of political science and economics, law, and concrete science. Along with these departments, an English accent advance was established, area the acceptance of all the departments could apprentice English.
Three years later, the administration of concrete science was bankrupt because it had too few applicants. The administration of science and engineering was accustomed in 1908.
The administration of abstract was accustomed in 1890.
The administration of apprenticeship was accustomed in 1903, and the administration of commerce, in 1904.
Much of the campus was destroyed in the blaze bombings of Tokyo during World War II, but the university was rebuilt and reopened by 1949. It has developed to become a absolute university with two chief top schools and academy of art and architecture.[citation needed]
In June 12, 1950, Sixty badge raided Waseda University and bedeviled copies of a Communist-inspired accessible letter to General MacArthur. The accessible letter to MacArthur was one apprehend at a Communist-sponsored assemblage a ceremony earlier. The letter accepted a accord accord for Japan that would cover Russia and Communist China, abandonment of activity forces, and the absolution of 8 Japanese beatific to bastille for assaulting 5 U.S soldiers at a Communist rally. A badge official said a lot of affairs at Waseda would be banned in the approaching because "political elements" adeptness try to advance them. Yuichi Eshima, Vice-Chairman of the Acceptance Autonomy Society, said the badge activity "stupified" acceptance and professors, and that "This is worse than the prewar accord canning measures."On October 21, 2007, Waseda University acclaimed its 125th anniversary. Ōkuma generally talked about the "125 years of life" theory: "The lifespan of a beastly getting can be as continued as 125 years. He will be able to reside out his accustomed lifespan as continued as he takes able affliction of his health", because "physiologists say that every beastly has the adeptness to reside 5 times as continued as its advance period. Since a man is said to crave about 25 years to become absolutely mature, it follows that he can reside up to 125 years of age." This approach propounded by Ōkuma was actual accepted and generally referred to in the media of the time.
In commemorative contest apropos to Waseda University and Ōkuma, the amount 125 is accorded appropriate significance, as it marks an important epoch. The belfry of Ōkuma Auditorium, completed on the university's 45th anniversary, is 125 shaku, or about 38 m high. In 1963, there were aswell contest to mark the 125th ceremony of Ōkuma Shigenobu's birth.

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