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The University of Tokyo, Japan
The University of
Tokyo, is a world-renowned research-oriented comprehensive
university headquartered in Bunkyo ku, Tokyo, Japan. As the highest
academic hall in Japan and the leader of seven former imperial
universities, it enjoys a high reputation worldwide.
The University of Tokyo was born in 1877 and was formed by the
merger and reorganization of Tokyo Kaisei School and Tokyo Medical
School during the Meiji Restoration. It initially established four
faculties of law, science, literature, and medicine, as well as a
preparatory school for universities. It was Japan's first national
comprehensive university and one of the earliest Western style
universities in Asia. Some of its faculties can be traced back to
the reign of Emperor Reimu, as a direct product of the impact of
capitalist civilization, The University of Tokyo holds a significant
historical position in Japanese society. The school was renamed
Imperial University in 1886, which was also the first Imperial
University established in Japan; In 1897, it was renamed "Tokyo
Imperial Univesity" to distiish it from the Kyoto Imperial
University established in Kyoto in the same year; In September 1947,
after World War II, it was officially named the University of Tokyo.
How to Reach the University
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/index.html#map
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