The University of Tokyo and UTokyo

In 2013, the University of Tokyo announced that its abbreviated name in English would be "UTokyo" instead the currently-used "Todai."

The University is commonly known as "Todai" in Japanese, an abbreviation of the Japanese characters that make up the Japanese name of the University. The full Japanese name of the University is the four characters that spell out Tokyo Daigaku. Taking the first character of Tokyo (our home city) and the first character of Daigaku (which means university), givesTodai.

The Charter of The University of Tokyo 

Preface

I. Academic pursuits

1. The fundamental goals of academic pursuits

2. The goals of education

3. The educational system

4. Evaluation of education

5. The internationalization of education and its links with society

6. Research principles

7. Diversity in research

8. Links in research

9. Societal benefits through research

II.Organization

10. Principles of self-governance

11. Directions and duties of the University President

12. Responsibilities of the constituent members of the University

13. Self-governance and duties of the basic organizational units

14. Autonomy with regard to personnel matters

III.Management

15. Fundamental goals of management

16. Fiscal structure

17. Creating a conducive environment for research and education

18. Academic information and its release

19. Respect for fundamental human rights

IV.The Charter’s significance

20. The Charter’s significance

V.Revisions to the Charter

21. Revisions to the Charter

Kyoto University

Kyoto University (京都大学 Kyōto daigaku?), or Kyodai (京大Kyōdai?) is a national university located in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest Japanese university,  one of the highest ranked universities in Asia and one of Japan's National Seven Universities. One of Asia’s leading research-oriented institutions, Kyoto University is famed for producing world-class researchers, including eight Nobel Prize laureates, two Fields medalists and one Gauss Prize. The university has been consistently ranked the second best institute in Japan since 2008 in various independent university ranking schemes.

History

The forerunner of the Kyoto University was the Chemistry School (舎密局 Seimi-kyoku?) founded inOsaka in 1869, which, despite its name, taught physics as well. (舎密 is a transcription of a Dutchword chemie.) Later, the Third Higher School (第三髙等學校 Daisan-kōtō-gakkō?) was established in the place of Seimi-kyoku in 1886, it then transferred to the university's present main campus in the same year.

Kyoto Imperial University (京都帝國大學 Kyōto-teikoku-daigaku?) as a part of the Imperial University system was established on June 18, 1897,[4] using the Third Higher School's buildings. The higher school moved to a patch of land just across the street, where the Yoshida South Campus stands today. In the same year of the university's establishment, the College of Science and Technology was founded. The College of Law and the College of Medicine were founded in 1899, the College of Letters in 1906, expanding the university's activities to areas outside natural science.

After World War II, the current Kyoto University was established by merging the imperial university and the Third Higher School, which assumed the duty of teaching liberal arts as the Faculty of Liberal Arts (教養部 Kyōyō-bu?). The faculty was dissolved with the foundation of the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies (総合人間学部 Sōgō-ningen-gakubu?) in 1992.

Kyoto University has since 2004 been incorporated as a national university corporation under a new law which applies to all national universities.

Despite the incorporation which has led to increased financial independence and autonomy, Kyoto University is still partly controlled by the Japanese Ministry of Education (文部科学省 Monbu-kagaku-shō?).

The University's Department of Geophysics and their Disaster Prevention Research Institute are both represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction.

Campuses

The Clocktower

The university has three campuses in Yoshida, Kyoto; in Gokashō, Uji; and in Katsura, Kyoto.

Yoshida Campus is the main campus, with some laboratories located in Uji. The Graduate School of Engineering is currently under process of moving to the newly built Katsura Campus.

Organization

The university has about 22,000 students enrolled in its undergraduate and graduate programs.

Faculties

∙ Faculty of Integrated Human Studies

∙ Faculty of Letters

∙ Faculty of Education

∙ Faculty of Law

∙ Faculty of Economics

∙ Faculty of Science

∙ Faculty of Medicine

∙ Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

∙ Faculty of Engineering

∙ Faculty of Agriculture

东京大学和京都大学英文简介