Hitoshi Ashida was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1948. He was a prominent figure in the immediate postwar political landscape, but was forced to resign his leadership responsibilities after a corruption scandal targeting two of his cabinet ministers.
Official portrait, 1948
Hitoshi Ashida as diplomat in 1931
Hitoshi Ashida (L) during a visit to Israel in 1958, with Golda Meir and the Japanese Ambassador to Israel, Kuniyoshi Negishi
The University of Tokyo is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era institutions, its direct predecessors include the Tenmongata and the Shoheizaka Institute.
Asakusa Observatory of the Tenmongata by Hokusai
Akamon (the Red Gate), built in 1827
University of Tokyo students (Kume, Matsuoka, Akutagawa and Naruse), circa 1916.
The University of Tokyo suffered immense damage in the Great Earthquake of 1923