Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

東京農工大学; Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
founding	1874/1949
Sponsorship	state
place	Fuchū , Tokyo Prefecture
country	Japan
management	Hiroyuki Ohno
Students	5,962 (May 2011)
Employee	641 (May 2011)
Website	www.tuat.ac.jp

Fuchū Campus (Faculty of Agricultural Science)

The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ( Japanese 東京農工大学 , Tōkyō nōkō daigaku ; English Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology , short: Nōkōdai ( 農工大 ) or TUAT ) is a state university in Japan . The main campus is in Fuchū in Tokyo Prefecture .

history

The university was founded in 1949 through the merger of the two state universities of applied sciences. The two were the Tokyo School of Agriculture and Forestry ( 東京農林専門学校 , Tōkyō nōrin semmon gakkō , in today's Fuchū campus) and the Tokyo Textile School ( 東京繊維専門学校 , Tōkyō sen'i semmon gakkō , in today's Koganei campus).

Tokyo School of Agriculture and Forestry

The University of Applied Sciences shares its origins with the Faculty of Agriculture at Tokyo University and Tsukuba University . In 1874 the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs ( Naimu-shō ) founded the Agricultural School ( 農事修学場 , Nōji shūgaku-jō ; today: part of Shinjuku Gyoen ). She took 1878 according to Komaba, Meguro at ( 35 ° 39 '35.2 " N , 139 ° 41' 1.1" O ) and was used to Landwirtschaftsschule Komaba ( 駒場農学校 , Komaba nōgakkō ), at the 1881 Oskar Kellner taught . In 1886 they and the Tokyo Forestry School were merged to form the Tokyo School of Agriculture and Forestry. The school consisted of major courses (departments of agriculture, forestry, veterinary medicine), preparatory course and crash courses ( 速成科 ). 35.659769444444 139.68365

In 1890 the school became the College of Agricultural Science of the Imperial University ( 帝国大学農科大学 , Teikoku daigaku nōka daigaku . In 1897 the university was renamed Imperial University of Tokyo; in 1919 the Nōka Daigaku was renamed Nō-Gakubu [Faculty of Agricultural Science]). Earlier short courses lasted as the Second Division ( 乙科 , Otsuka ) of the college. In 1898 the second department was renamed the Practical Application Department ( 実科 , Jikka ).

In 1935, the Department of Practical Application developed into the Higher School of Agriculture and Forestry Tokyo ( 東京高等農林学校 , Tōkyō kōtō nōrin gakkō ), and their new campus was opened in Fuchū (today's Fuchū campus). In the same year, the main department of the Agricultural Faculty of the Imperial University of Tokyo moved to today's Hongō campus. Only the agricultural teacher training course remained in Komaba and was renamed Tokyo Agricultural Education School in 1937 (see Tsukuba University ).

In 1944 the Higher School of Agriculture and Forestry was renamed the Tokyo School of Agriculture and Forestry. It was the predecessor of the Faculty of Agricultural Science at TUAT.

Textile School Tokyo

Memorial stone at the founding site of the Tokyo Higher Silk Building School in Nishigahara, Kita (Tokyo)

Museum of Natural Sciences on the Koganei Campus, built in 1937 as the main building of the Tokyo Higher Silk School

The University of Applied Sciences in 1874 was established as a section Seidenbauversuch ( 蚕業試験掛 , Sangyo shiken kakari ) in Naitō- Shinjuku -Zweigbetrieb the Department of Industrial Promotion of Naimu-Sho ( 内務省勧業寮内藤新宿出張所, Naimu-shō Kangyo-ryō Naito-Shinjuku shutchō -jo ; today: part of Shinjuku Gyoen ). The section was closed in 1879 and rebuilt in 1884 as a research institute for silkworm diseases of the Nōshōmu-shōs ( 農商務省蚕病試験場 , Nōshōmu-shō sambyō shiken-jō ; today: the seat of the Imperial Hotel in Chiyoda ). In 1886 the research institute moved to Nishigahara, Kita ( 35 ° 44 ′ 42 ″ N , 139 ° 44 ′ 36.6 ″ E ). In 1896 it was renamed the Institute for Silk Construction, and then in 1899 the Institute for Silk Construction Tokyo ( 東京蚕業講習所 , Tōkyō sangyō kōshū-jo ), because the second teaching institution was founded in Kyoto (see Kyoto University of Technology ). 35.745 139.7435

The school was renamed in 1914 in Tokyo Higher Silk Building School ( 東京高等蚕糸学校 , Tōkyō kōtō sanshi gakkō ; English Tokyo Imperial College of Sericulture ). In 1940, today's Koganei campus was reopened and the college moved to the campus. In 1944 it was renamed Tokyo Textile School. Along with Kyōto and Ueda , it was one of the three state textile schools in Japan and the predecessor of the TUAT Faculty of Textile Science.