  , abbreviated to ,tokyo's meiji university's æå¤§ is pronounced identically is a japanese national university headquartered in chikusa-ku, nagoya. it is the last imperial university in japan and among the national seven universities. it is the 4th best ranked higher education institution in japan.academic ranking of world universities (2014). as of 2014, five alumni of the university have received the nobel prize in science. == history == nagoya university traces its roots back to 1871 when it was a temporary medical school. in 1939 it became nagoya imperial university. in 1947 it was renamed nagoya university, and became a japanese national university. in 2004 it became a japanese national university corporation. the ideal written in the nagoya university academic charter is to encourage the intelligentsia with courage by providing an education which respects independent thought. in march 2012 the university played host to the international symposium on innovative nanobiodevices.isin 2012. square.umin.ac.jp. retrieved on 2014-06-16. ==student population== while the majority of its students come from tÅkai region, nagoya university has a good portion of students from all over japan. it also receives many students from abroad. currently there are over 1300 foreign students (150 undergraduate) from 78 countries studying in the faculties of nagoya university. the majority of them are from china (47%, as of may 1, 2009) and korea (9.5%). among other countries, taiwan, indonesia, viet nam, malaysia, cambodia and uzbekistan are represented by more than 30 students. the united states and brazil with 16 students each are the most represented non-asian countries. ==notable alumni and affiliates== *include six nobel prize winners. **hiroshi amano, one of the 2014 [[nobel prize in
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