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Hongō, Tokyo
is a district of Tokyo located in Bunkyō, due north of the Tokyo Imperial Palace and west of Ueno. History Hongō was a ward of the former city of Tokyo until 1947, when it merged with another ward, Koishikawa, to form the modern Bunkyō. Transportation Hongō-sanchōme Station (Marunouchi Line and Toei Oedo Line) is in the center of this Ward, which is main station of this ward. Education Hongō is home to the University of Tokyo, Juntendo and Toyo Gakuen Universities. There are many schools and universities in this ward and it has been regarded as a school zone since Meiji era. Bunkyo Board of Education operates the local public elementary and middle schools. Zoned elementary schools for parts of Hongo are: *Hongo ( 本郷小学校) for 1-2 and 4-5-chome *Yushima ( 湯島小学校) for 3 and 7-chome *Seishi ( 誠之小学校) for 6-chome Zoned junior high schools for parts of Hongo include: *Hongo ( 郷台中学校) for 1-5 and 7-chome *No. 6 ( 第六中学校) for 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasuda Auditorium
is a building and clock tower at the center of the Hongo, Tokyo, Hongō campus of the University of Tokyo. It serves as the central symbol of the campus, where special events and graduation ceremonies are held. History The building was completed in 1925 with a donation from businessman Yasuda Zenjirō, who intended for the building to be a ''binden'' (a place the Emperor of Japan could stay). The building was designed by architects Yoshikazu Uchida and Hideto Kishida, the latter of whom was an expressionist architecture, expressionist. During the Second World War, in October 1940, the auditorium was the site of a special celebration of the anniversaries of the Imperial Rescript on Education and of the establishment of the Imperial Family of Japan in power. During the 1968-69 Japanese university protests, the building was occupied by student demonstrators - first in June 1968, when a dispute at the University of Tokyo Medical School led to medical students occupying the building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juntendo University
is a private university in Japan. Its headquarters are on its campus in Bunkyo, Tokyo, for the School of Medicine and in Inzai, Chiba, for the School of Health and Sports Science. The university was established in 1838 for medical and in 1946 for other departments. It is nicknamed ''Jundai''. Campuses *Hongō-Ochanomizu Campus: Bunkyo, Tokyo, *Sakura Campus: Inzai, Chiba, *Urayasu Campus:Urayasu, Chiba, *Mishima Campus: Mishima, Shizuoka, Faculties *Faculty of Medicine *Faculty of Health and Sports Science *Faculty of Health Care and Nursing *Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing *Faculty of International Liberal Arts The Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine has granted doctorates since 1963, and the total numbers of the two types doctorate holders (甲 Kou and 乙 Otsu) has reached reach 1,897 and 2,394, respectively, as of 2017. Notable alumni Athletes *Masatada Ishii, Manager of Buriram United *Takehiro Kashima, gymnast *Ryōhei Katō, gymnast *Hiroshi Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaoya Oshichi
, literally "greengrocer Oshichi", was a daughter of the greengrocer Tarobei, who lived in the Hongō neighborhood of Edo at the beginning of the Edo period. She was burned at the stake for attempting to commit arson. The story (see below) became the subject of '' joruri'' plays. The year of her birth is sometimes given as 1666. Biography In December 1682, she fell in love with Ikuta Shōnosuke (or Saemon), a temple page, during the great fire in the Tenna Era, at Shōsen-in, the family temple (danna-dera). The next year she attempted arson, thinking she could meet him again if another fire occurred. She was caught by the police and burnt at the stake in Suzugamori for her crimes. The magistrate at her trial, though knowing she was sixteen years old, asked her, ”You must be fifteen years old, aren't you?” At the time, boys and girls under the age of sixteen were not subject to the death penalty, and since strict family registration systems were not yet widely implemented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chome
The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. When written in Japanese characters, addresses start with the largest geographical entity and proceed to the most specific one. When written in Latin characters, addresses follow the convention used by most Western addresses and start with the smallest geographic entity (typically a house number) and proceed to the largest. The Japanese system is complex and idiosyncratic, the product of the natural growth of urban areas, as opposed to the systems used in cities that are laid out as grids and divided into quadrants or districts. Address parts Japanese addresses begin with the largest division of the country, the prefecture. Most of these are called ''ken'' (県), but there are also three other special prefecture designations: ''to'' (都) for Tokyo, ''dō'' (道) for ''Hokkaidō'' and ''fu'' (府) for the two urban prefectures of Osaka and Kyoto. Following the prefecture is the municipality. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meiji Era
The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent great power, influenced by Western scientific, technological, philosophical, political, legal, and aesthetic ideas. As a result of such wholesale adoption of radically different ideas, the changes to Japan were profound, and affected its social structure, internal politics, economy, military, and foreign relations. The period corresponded to the reign of Emperor Meiji. It was preceded by the Keiō era and was succeeded by the Taishō era, upon the accession of Emperor Taishō. The rapid modernization during the Meiji era was not without its opponents, as the rapid changes to society caused many disaffected traditionalists from the former samurai cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyo Gakuen University
, also known by the acronym TGU, founded in 1926, is a small private college located in the greater Tokyo area of Japan. The university has two campuses. The original campus, which presently houses the School of Business Administration, is located in downtown Tokyo, in Hongō, Bunkyō Ward. The school also has a larger campus in the city of Nagareyama, in Chiba Prefecture, about an hour away from the main campus by train. The Nagareyama campus is the home for TGU's Faculty of Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t .... External links Toyo Gakuen University English Web Site Educational institutions established in 1926 Private universities and colleges in Japan Universities and colleges in Tokyo Universities and colleges in Chiba Prefecture 1926 establishme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
