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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 ...
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All first-year undergraduates are matriculated at the College of Arts and Sciences and spend two years as junior division students at the college. [3] The liberal arts education they receive there lasts for the first year and a half, and from the second half of their second year, they receive specialised education from the senior division departments they are accepted into. [4]
Faculty of Law is one of the oldest 4 faculties (Science, Medicine, Law and Letters) of the University of Tokyo and the oldest law school in Japan. Most of Japan's high-level bureaucrats are graduates of the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Law, [1] and it has long produced political and judicial establishment in Japan. [2]
The Hongo campus has many historic buildings including Yasuda Auditorium, the first registered tangible cultural heritage property in Tokyo. Other examples of registered cultural heritage sites are the Main Gate, including the porter's lodge; buildings 1, 2 and 3 of the Faculty of Law & Letters; the building housing the Faculty of Engineering (Reppin-kan); and building 1 of the Faculty of ...
The Faculty of Letters became part of the university when it was founded in 1877 through the merger of the Kaisei School and the Tokyo School of Medicine, the former of which included the Faculty. The Faculty traces its roots to the Bansho Shirabesho and the Shōhei-zaka Gakumonjo, both established during the Edo period. [1]
Until the 1990s, the University of Tokyo operated campuses dispersed across various locations such as Nakano, Shirokanedai, and Mitaka (later spun off from the university as the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), as well as Roppongi (Institute for Solid State Physics, Institute of Industrial Science) [2] and Tanashi (Institute for Nuclear Study, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), in ...
Consequently, the First Higher School, originally a university preparatory boarding school, was absorbed into UTokyo, and the Komaba Campus came under its ownership once more. It was renamed the College of Arts and Sciences and has preserved First Higher School's distinct culture to this day.