Waseda University Buildings
Waseda may refer to: * Waseda University * Waseda-SAT2 * 9350 Waseda * Waseda El Dorado People with the surname *, Japanese swimmer See also * Waseda Station (other) Waseda Station is the name of two train stations in Japan: * Waseda Station (Tokyo Metro), a rapid transit station in Shinjuku, Tokyo. * Waseda Station (Toden) is a station on the Tokyo Sakura Tram. This is the terminus of the line. It is separ ... {{disambiguation, surname Japanese-language surnames ...
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Waseda University
, abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the ''Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō'' by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902. The university has numerous notable alumni, including nine Prime Minister of Japan, prime ministers of Japan, a number of important figures of Japanese literature, including Haruki Murakami, and many CEOs, including Tadashi Yanai, the CEO of UNIQLO, Nobuyuki Idei, the former CEO of Sony, Takeo Fukui, the former president and CEO of Honda, Norio Sasaki, the former CEO of Toshiba, Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of Samsung Group, Mikio Sasaki, the former chairman of Mitsubishi, and Hiroshi Yamauchi and Shuntaro Furukawa, former and current presidents of Nintendo respectively. Waseda was ranked 26th and 48th globally in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2017 and Times Higher Education Alma Mater Index 2017, respectively. Waseda is regarded as one of the most selective ...
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Waseda-SAT2
Waseda-SAT2 is a Japanese satellite which launched in May 2010. It is a student-built spacecraft, which will be operated by Waseda University, and is intended to be used for Earth observation and technology demonstration. It will test the use of extendible paddles to provide attitude control. The satellite is a single unit CubeSat. The launch was conducted by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries under contract to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. In preparation for a planned launch on 17 May, the H-IIA rocket was rolled out to Pad 1 of the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Centre on 16 May 2010. It departed the assembly building at 21:01 UTC and arriving at the launch pad 24 minutes later at 21:25 UTC. The terminal countdown began at 11:30 UTC on 17 May and by 15:28, the loading of cryogenic propellant into the rocket's first and second stages had been completed. The launch attempt was scrubbed a few minutes before liftoff due to bad weather, but took place success ...
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9350 Waseda
Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper Adige (modern Tyrol). He proceeds towards Verona to join his supporters. King Hugh of Provence takes a Burgundian army against him, and defeats Arnulf at Gossolengo, forcing him to return to Bavaria. * Summer – Caliph Al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah dispatches a Fatimid naval expedition under Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Tamimi to raid the coast of Provence and Liguria, sacking Genoa on 16 August and attacking Pisa. Ya'qub also raids Corsica and Sardinia before returning to Mahdia with some 8,000 prisoners. * September 28 – Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia (the subject of the 1853 Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas") is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I ("the Cruel"), who succeeds him. * Córdoba, capital of ...
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Waseda El Dorado
Waseda El Dorado, also known as ''Rhythms of Vision'', is a building designed by the Japanese architect Von Jour Caux and built in August, 1983. It is located near the Waseda University campus in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The building design is a mixture of revival Art Nouveau (or Arts and Crafts) and Japanese culture. Its interior features a Buddhist stave's giant hand pointing down from a ceiling of stained glass. The curving wrought-iron balconies take the form of lily pads, and the wrought-iron banister gracefully zigzags past elegant Art Deco stained-glass windows. Tattoo-designs adorn the ceramic figures, green-gold wallpaper is imprinted by Edo-style woodblocks, and iridescent tiles reflect the art of inlaid mother-of-pearl Nacre ( , ), also known as mother of pearl, is an organicinorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer; it is also the material of which pearls are composed. It is strong, resilient, and iridescent. Nacre i ...
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Noboru Waseda
is a Japanese former swimmer. He competed in two events at the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve .... References External links * 1951 births Living people Japanese male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers of Japan Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Hiroshima Asian Games medalists in swimming Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Swimmers at the 1970 Asian Games Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games 20th-century Japanese people {{Japan-swimming-bio-stub ...
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Waseda Station (other)
Waseda Station is the name of two train stations in Japan: * Waseda Station (Tokyo Metro), a rapid transit station in Shinjuku, Tokyo. * Waseda Station (Toden) is a station on the Tokyo Sakura Tram. This is the terminus of the line. It is separate from Waseda Station on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line. Lines Waseda Station is served by Tokyo Sakura Tram The , branded as the , is a hybrid light rail/t ...