University of Tokyo

The , also known as , is a university in Tokyo, Japan.University of Tokyo (Todai),  About the University of Tokyo ; retrieved 2012-4-17. It is the oldest and most difficult to get into among all the universities in Japan.

History
The modern university was established in 1877.  It merged older government schools for medicine and Western learning.Todai, History; retrieved 2012-4-17.

In 1886, the name was changed to .

In 1897, the name became .

After the end of World War II, the early name of the school was restored.
Organization
The University of Tokyo has 10 faculties (schools for undergraduate students) and 15 graduate schools.
Faculties and Colleges

 Faculty of Agriculture
 College & Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
 Faculty & Graduate School of Economics
 Faculty & Graduate School of Education
 Faculty & Graduate School of Engineering
 Faculty of Law
 Faculty of Letters
 Faculty of & Graduate School MedicineIchimura, K., Nibu, K. I., & Tanaka, T. (1997). Nerve paralysis after surgery in the submandibular triangle: review of University of Tokyo Hospital experience. Head & neck, 19(1), 48-53.Sora, S., Ueki, K., Saito, N., Kawahara, N., Shitara, N., & Kirino, T. (2001). Incidence of von Hippel-Lindau disease in hemangioblastoma patients: the University of Tokyo Hospital experience from 1954–1998. Acta neurochirurgica, 143(9), 893-896.Ohe, K., & Kaihara, S. (1996). Implementation of HL7 to client-server hospital information system (HIS) in the University of Tokyo Hospital. Journal of medical systems, 20(4), 197-205.Togashi, J., Akamastu, N., & Kokudo, N. (2016). Living donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma at the University of Tokyo Hospital. Hepatobiliary Surgery and Nutrition, 5(5), 399.Akamatsu, N., & Kokudo, N. (2016, May). Living liver donor selection and resection at the University of Tokyo Hospital. In Transplantation Proceedings (Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 998-1002). Elsevier.
 Faculty of Pharmaceutical SciencesTsubaki, T., Orii, T., & Sugiura, M. (1990). Utilization of a computerized system at the pharmacy department of the University of Tokyo Hospital--impact of prescription order entry and computerized dispensing system. Japan-hospitals: the Journal of the Japan Hospital Association, 9, 61-67.
 Faculty of & Graduate School Science

Graduate Schools
 Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
 Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
 Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
 Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies
 Graduate Schools for Law and Politics
 Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences
Research Institutes
The University of Tokyo has the following research institutes.
Non-Scientific Institutes
 Institute of Oriental Culture
 Institute of Social Science
Scientific Institutes
 Institute of Medical Science
 Earthquake Research Institute
 Institute of Industrial Science
 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

Notable alumni
National leaders
17 prime ministers of Japan have studied at the University of Tokyo. 
 Reijirō Wakatsuki
 Osachi Hamaguchi
 Kōki Hirota
 Kiichirō Hiranuma
 Kijūrō Shidehara
 Shigeru Yoshida
 Tetsu Katayama
 Hitoshi Ashida
 Ichirō Hatoyama
 Nobusuke Kishi
 Eisaku Satō
 Takeo Fukuda
 Yasuhiro Nakasone
 Kiichi Miyazawa
 Yukio Hatoyama
Nobel Prize receivers
Ten alumni of the University of Tokyo have received the Nobel Prize.
Yasunari Kawabata, Literature, 1968
Leo Esaki, Physics, 1973
Eisaku Satō, Peace, 1974
Kenzaburō Ōe, Literature, 1994
Masatoshi Koshiba, Physics, 2002
Yoichiro Nambu, Physics, 2008
Ei-ichi Negishi, Chemistry, 2010
Takaaki Kajita, Physics, 2015
Yoshiro Ohsumi, Physiology, 2016
Shyukuro Manabe, Physics, 2021
Apart from them, two Nobel Prize winners did their PhD at the University of Tokyo: Shin'ichirō Tomonaga and Satoshi Ōmura. A few more Nobel Prize winners have worked at the University of Tokyo.

Others
Other graduates also include Masao Iri, Masatake Mori, Masaaki Sugihara and Toshio Irie.

Related pages
 University of Tokyo Press
 List of national universities in Japan
 Earthquake engineering
 Tansei
 Kyoto University

References

 Other websites 

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