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The, abbreviated as, is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, some 2,100 of them foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano.

History

The university was founded by the Meiji government in 1877 under its current name by amalgamating older government schools for medicine and Western learning. It was renamed "the " in 1886, and then in 1887 when the Imperial University system was created. In 1947, after Japan's defeat in World War II, it assumed the original name again. With the start of the new university system in 1949, Todai swallowed up the former First Higher School (today's Komaba campus) and the former Tokyo Higher School, which henceforth assumed the duty of teaching first and second-year undergraduates, while the faculties on Hongo main campus took care of third and fourth-year students.
The University of Tokyo has since 2004 been incorporated as a "national university corporation" under a new law which applies to all national universities.
While nearly all academic disciplines are taught at the University, it's perhaps best known for its faculties of science, law, and literature (for example, faculty of letters).
Furthermore, the law department has produced many Japanese politicians, though the power of the department has been gradually decreasing. For example; the ratio of its alumni in prime ministers is 2/3, 1/2, 1/4, 1/5 and 1/6 in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s respectively.
The University of Tokyo is widely thought of as being one of the most prestigious schools over many areas while its rival schools are the other six of the Seven Universities, which were Imperial Universities before World War II, especially Kyoto University. In science, Kyoto University has produced more Nobel prize winners. One of the presidents of Tokyo Imperial University was Kikuchi Dairoku.

Organization

Faculties

Law
Medicine
Engineering
Letters
Science
Agriculture
Economics
Arts and Sciences
Education
Pharmaceutical Sciences

Graduate schools

Humanities and Sociology

Education

Law and Politics

Economics

Arts and Sciences

Science

Engineering

Agricultural and Life Sciences

Medicine

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Mathematical Sciences

Frontier Sciences

Information Science and Technology

Interdisciplinary Information Studies

Public Policy

Research institutes

Institute of Medical Science

Earthquake Research Institute

Institute of Oriental Culture

Institute of Social Science

Institute of Industrial Science

Historiographical Institute

Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences

Institute for Cosmic Ray Research

Institute for Solid State Physics

Ocean Research Institute

Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology

Academic rankings

Five alumni of University of Tokyo have received the Nobel Prize.(External Link

) In the 2007 University ranking published by The Times Higher Education Supplement, University of Tokyo was ranked 17th in the world and 1st in Asia.(External Link

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Campus

The main Hongo campus occupies the former estate of the Maeda family, Edo period feudal lords of Kaga Province. The university's best known landmark, Akamon (the Red Gate) is a relic of this era. The symbol of the university is the ginkgo leaf, from the abundant trees throughout the area. Image:医学部1号館Med.1st Bldg.jpg|Medical 1st bldg. Image:Med 2d. Bldg.jpg|Medical 2nd Bldg. Image:Med. Experimental Research Bldg.jpg|Med. Experimental Research Bldg Image:Med.Library in Uni.jpg|Medical Library Image:総合図書館.jpg|General Library Image:The Experimental Tank.jpg|The Experimental Tank

Komaba Campus

Being one of the five campuses of University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus is home to the department of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, and a number of advanced research facilities and campus services. It’s the campus for all the freshmen and sophomores in undergraduate school. Therefore, every University of Tokyo student has spent at least two years in the Komaba Campus. University of Tokyo is the only University in Japan which has a system of two years of general education before let the students choose and move on to the major studies. In this system, the Komaba Campus is the cornerstone of the general education, and was designated as the “center of excellence” for three new areas of research by the Japanese Ministry of Education and Science. There are currently over 7,000 students in the junior division (freshmen and sophomores) for College of Arts and Sciences, about 450 students in the senior division, and 1,400 graduate students devoting in their studies.

Sanshiro Pond

, in the heart of the university's Hongo campus, dates to 1615. After the fall of the Osaka Castle, the Shogun gave this pond and its surrounding garden to Maeda Toshitsune. As Maeda Tsunanori further developed the garden, it became known as one of the most beautiful gardens in Edo (now Tokyo), with the traditional eight landscapes and eight borders, but also known for its originality in its artificial pond, hills, and pavilions. It was at that time known as Ikutoku-en (Garden of Teaching Virtue). The pond's contours are in the shape of the character kokoro or shin (heart), and thus its official name is Ikutoku-en Shinjiike. However it has been commonly called Sanshiro Pond since the publication of Natsume Sōseki's novel Sanshiro.

Notable alumni and faculty members

University of Tokyo has produced many notable people. Six Japanese Prime Ministers have studied at University of Tokyo.

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