The Imperial Universities were founded by the Empire of Japan between 1886 and 1939, seven in Mainland Japan, one in Korea under Japanese rule and one in Taiwan under Japanese rule. They were run by the imperial government until the end of World War II.
The Gakushi Kaikan, a club for members of the former Imperial Universities in Tokyo
Image: Tokyo Imperial University,1925
Image: Tohoku Imperial University,1913
Image: Hokkaido Imperial University
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