History -:
The University
of Tokyo is a research university located
in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The university has
10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom
are foreign. It is the first of Japan's National Seven Universities.
University was chartered by the Meiji government in 1877 under its
current name by amalgamating older government schools for medicine and Western
learning. It was renamed the Imperial University in 1886, and
then Tokyo Imperial University in 1897 when the Imperial
University system was created. In September 1923, an
earthquake and the following fires destroyed about 700,000
volumes of the Imperial University Library.
The books lost included the Hoshino Library a collection of about
10,000 books. The books were the former possessions of Hoshino Hisashi before
becoming part of the library of the university and were mainly about Chinese
philosophy and history. In 1947, after Japan's defeat in World War II, it
re-assumed its original name. On 20 January 2012, University of Tokyo announced
that it would shift the beginning of its academic year from April to September
to align its calendar with the international standard. The shift would be
phased in over five years. But this unilateral announcement by the president
was received badly and the university abandoned the plans.
Academic
Faculties & Departments -:
According
to the Japan Times, the university had 1,282 professors in February 2012.
Of those, 58 were women.
Faculty
of agriculture
College
of Arts and Sciences
Faculty
of economics
Faculty
of education
Faculty
of engineering
Faculty
of law
Faculty
of letters
Faculty
of medicine
Faculty
of pharmaceutical
Faculty
of science
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
Atmosphere
and Ocean Research Institute
Research
Center for Advanced Science and Technology.
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