Tsukuba University
| University of Tsukuba 筑波 大学 |
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| founding | 1872/1973 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Tsukuba , Ibaraki Prefecture |
| country | Japan |
| president | Kyosuke Nagata |
| Students | 16,828 (May 2010) |
| Employee | 4,262 (April 2010) |
| Networks | IAU |
| Website | www.tsukuba.ac.jp |
The Tsukuba University ( Japanese 筑波 大学 , Tsukuba daigaku ) is a state university in Japan . The main campus is in Tennōdai, Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture, and a second campus with fellow graduate students and a focus on adult education in Ōtsuka, Bunkyō , Tokyo .
history
The University of Tsukuba was founded in October 1973 as a model of the "universities in the new concept" of the Japanese Ministry of Education ( 文部省 , Mombu-shō , today: MEXT ). At that time, the Japanese universities were still influenced by Marxist professors and students. The Tokyo University of Education ( 東京 教育 大学 , Tōkyō kyōiku daigaku ), the predecessor of the University of Tsukuba, also had the problem, so the Ministry of Education changed it to the "new" university by relocating to Tsukuba. In 2002, the former University of Library and Information Science ( 図 書館 情報 大学 , Toshokan jōhō daigaku , founded in 1921) became the School of Library and Information Science (now part of the School of Computer Science).
The history of the former Tokyo Pedagogical University is as follows:
Tokyo University of Education
The Tokyo University of Education was founded in 1949 through the merger of the four state schools. The four were the Tokyo School of Humanities and Natural Sciences ( 東京 文 理科 大学 , Tōkyō bunrika daigaku ), the Tokyo Higher Normal School ( 東京 高等 師範学校 , Tōkyō kōtō shihan gakkō ), the Tokyo School of Agricultural Education ( 東京 農業 教育 専 門 学校 , Tōkyō nōgyō kyōiku semmon gakkō , founded 1937) and the Tokyo School of Sports ( 東京 体育 専 門 学校 , Tōkyō taiiku semmon gakkō , founded 1924).
The Tokyo School of Humanities and Sciences, one of its predecessors, was founded in 1872 as the first state normal school in Japan. It renamed itself in 1873 in Tokyo Normal School and then in 1886 in Higher Normal School ( 高等 師範学校 , Kōtō shihan gakkō ; the Higher Normal School was the state educational institution to educate the teachers in the normal schools, middle schools, higher girls' schools). In 1902 it was renamed Tokyo Higher Normal School, because the second state higher normal school was founded in Hiroshima (today: Hiroshima University ). The school later founded the advanced course ( 専 攻 科 , 2 years), which in 1929 developed into a university for the humanities and natural sciences.
The university had faculties not only for education, but also for the humanities, natural sciences, agronomy, and sports. Its former main campus is now Kyōikunomori Park ( 教育 の 森 公園 ) and Ōtsuka Campus (in Ōtsuka, Bunkyō-ku , Tokyo, 35 ° 43 ′ 12.1 ″ N , 139 ° 44 ′ 12.4 ″ E ) . Her three locations were too small and she was looking for a larger campus (i.e. transfer to Tsukuba). The university was legally abolished in 1978 after the opening of Tsukuba University.
Famous teachers and students: Choi Kyu-ha (studied at the secondary school: 1937–1941) and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (professor: 1941–1969, president: 1956–1962).
Faculties
The schools (Japanese 学 群 , gakugun , English Schools ) are the larger faculties, which consist of the colleges (Japanese 学 類 , gakurui ), the larger departments.
- School of Humanities and Culture
- School for Social Sciences and Intercultural Studies
- School of Human Sciences
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences
- School of Science and Engineering
- Computer Science School
- School of Medicine
- School of Sports
- School of Arts
The evening courses for business people from the graduate schools are located on the Ōtsuka campus and on the Akihabara campus.
International activities
The university has “International Offices” in Tunis , Tashkent and Ho Chi Minh City . She has had her European office in Bonn since 2010 .
Symbol (bluebell tree)
The logo (symbol) of the University of Tsukuba denotes the bluebell tree (Japanese Kiri , with three leaves and eleven [3 - 5 - 3] flowers). It looks similar to the coat of arms of the Japanese Prime Minister and his cabinet ( Go-Shichi no Kiri with three leaves and 17 [5 - 7 - 5] flowers).
One of the student songs is called Kiri no ha ( 桐 の 葉 , dt. "The leaf of the bluebell tree"). In 1919 a student ( 大 和 資 雄 , Yamato Yasuo , 1898–1990) wrote the words on an anonymous melody. At that time, the Tokyo Higher Normal School had a difficult problem: developing into a university or abolition. The professors and students wanted the development and got up with this song (the school developed into a college in 1929).
- The song appeals to schoolmates to leave the "ruin" and get up, just as the leaf of the bluebell tree will certainly come off the tree in autumn. It then declares that the renowned fountain in Meikei ( 茗 渓 ) should be exhausted when the water becomes unclear.
Ōyama Noburō ( 大 山 信 郎 ), the last rector of the Tokyo Pedagogical University, wrote the third verse in 1973, which sings of the exhaustion of the water in Meikei and the birth of a new well in Tsukuba. In 2003 the rector Kitahara added the fourth verse. The student song is a living song with the university.
Web links
- Official website (Japanese and English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Message from the President. In: www.tsukuba.ac.jp. University of Tsukuba, accessed August 4, 2019 .
- ↑ 学生 数 (number of students), PDF in Japanese, page 27: Undergraduates 10,051, Post-Graduates 6,777. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
- ↑ 役 員 数 ・ 職員 数 (number of staff), PDF in Japanese: scientific staff 2,311, others 1,951. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
- ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 4, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/english/about/history.html (in English), accessed June 28, 2010.
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↑ MEXT, JAPAN'S MODERN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , VII-6- (7): Student Movement ( Memento of the original dated August 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ibid. VII-6- (8): University Reform ( Memento of the original dated June 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in English. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
- ↑ 創 基 か ら の 沿革 図 ( picture of history since it was founded), in Japanese, accessed on June 28, 2010.
- ^ Announcement from the DAAD. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Cheerleading Club "WINS" of the University of Tsukuba, in Japanese)
- ↑ The word Meikei ( 茗 渓 : 茗 "tea" + 渓 "valley") denotes: (1) 御 茶 の 水 , Ochanomizu , dt. "Tea water (for Shogun )", the place where the school was founded (see Yushima Seidō ), (2) 茗 荷 谷 , Myōgadani , dt. "Valley of Myōga ( Zingiber mioga )", where the school was then (from 1903 to 1973). So the word denotes the University of Tsukuba. The Tsukuba University's alumni network is called Meikei-kai ( 茗 渓 会 ).
Coordinates: 36 ° 6 ′ 30.5 ″ N , 140 ° 6 ′ 5.9 ″ E