University of Tokyo
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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, i
Yasuda Auditorium
Asakusa Observatory of the Tenmongata by Hokusai
The University of Tokyo suffered immense damage in the Great Earthquake of 1923.
Most of the buildings on the Hongo Campus today were built during the reconstruction period in a style known as Uchida Gothic, including Yasuda Auditorium and the General Library.
Imperial Universities
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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. These universities
University of Tokyo
…In 1886, the university was renamed Imperial University, and it adopted the name Tokyo Imperial University in 1897 after the founding of another imperial university. By 1888, all faculties had completed their relocation to the former site of the Tokyo residence of the Maeda family in Hongo. Among the few extant…
The Gakushi Kaikan, a club for members of the former Imperial Universities in Tokyo
Tokyo Imperial University，1925
Tohoku Imperial University,1913
Hokkaido Imperial University