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Also, each university or college is listed in the prefecture in which its headquarters is located, not the location of their satellite campuses, etc. or that of some of its departments or divisions. For the list of universities that existed in the past or merged into another school, see List of historical universities in Japan .
Since 2004, each national university has been incorporated as a National University Corporation (国立大学法人, kokuritsu daigaku hōjin) and given limited autonomy in its operations. [3] Faculty and staff are no longer government employees ( 国家公務員 , kokka kōmuin ) working for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science ...
Since 2004, most of public university has been incorporated as a "public university corporation" (公立大学法人, kouritsu daigaku hōjin). University names which shifted are "graduate university" ( 大学院大学 , daigakuin daigaku ) ( ko ).
Aeronautical Safety College (administered by Japan Ministry of Land); Hitotsubashi University; National College of Nursing (administered by Japan Ministry of Health); National Fire Fighters' Academy
The International University of Japan (国際大学, Kokusai Daigaku or IUJ) is a private university located in Minamiuonuma city in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. IUJ is the first graduate university in Japan, not offering undergraduate degrees, and one of the few Japanese universities which offers all courses in English. [1] [2] It was founded in ...
The Open University of Japan (放送大学, Hōsō Daigaku, formerly The University of the Air, the English name of the university was changed on 1 October 2007) is a distance learning university which has students from all over Japan; it accepted its first students in 1985.
Passing the entrance exam to a university is a major life step for a young Japanese person. Higher education in Japan is provided at universities (大学 daigaku), junior colleges (短期大学 tanki daigaku), colleges of technology (高等専門学校 kōtō senmon gakkō) and special training schools and community colleges (専修学校 senshū gakkō).
The University of Tokyo (東京大学, Tōkyō daigaku, abbreviated as Tōdai (東大) in Japanese and UTokyo in English [7]) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era institutions, its direct precursors include the Tenmongata ...