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, the heart of

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. Established in 1881 as Meiji Law School (明治法律学校, ''Meiji Hōritsu Gakkō'') by three

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lawyers, Kishimoto Tatsuo, Miyagi Kōzō, and Yashiro Misao, Meiji University is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning in Japan. The university has a total of approximately 33,000 students on all four campuses around the

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: Surugadai, Izumi, Ikuta, and Nakano. Meiji is organized into 10 undergraduate, 12 graduate, 4 professional graduate schools; and operates 15 world-class research centers and a

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. It began its first partner agreement in 1986 with

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, and currently partners with 363 universities and institutions in 56 countries. Some of the university's partners include:

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. Meiji University is one of Japan's leading private universities. It has highly selective admissions, with an acceptance rate averaging around 15%. It is known to be Japan's most popular university with applications exceeding 100,000 annually, and in 2020, was named the top institution for attractive courses and subjects of study. Meiji is a part of the

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of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The university is a sporting powerhouse with memberships in top-tier intercollegiate athletic associations in Japan, consistently winning national competitions. As of 2021, 270 Meiji alumni have competed in the olympics and garnered 40 medals, 14 gold, 13 silver and 13 bronze. From its founding, it has sent out 570,000 graduates around the world, with alumni in diverse fields such as world politics, business, culture, entertainment, sports, and mass media. Meiji University's alumni have included: Japan's first female lawyer, 2 Japanese prime ministers, 48 national politicians, 380 professional athletes, 115 company presidents, and 264 artists.

Organization

Undergraduate schools

*School of Law **Department of Law *School of Commerce **Department of Commerce *School of Political Science and Economics **Department of Political Science **Department of Economics **Department of Regional Administration *School of Arts and Letters **Department of Literature **Department of History and Geography **Department of Social Psychology *School of Science and Technology **Department of Electrical Engineering **Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering **Department of Mechanical Engineering **Department of Precision Engineering **Department of Architecture **Department of Industrial Chemistry **Department of Information Science **Department of Mathematics **Department of Physics *School of Agriculture **Department of Agriculture **Department of Agricultural Economics **Department of Agricultural Chemistry **Department of Life Sciences *School of Business Administration **Department of Business Administration **Department of Accounting **Department of Public Management *School of Information and Communication **Department of Information and Communication *School of Global Japanese Studies **Department of Global Japanese Studies

Graduate schools

*Graduate School of Law *Graduate School of Commerce *Graduate School of Political Science and Economics *Graduate School of Business Administration *Graduate School of Arts and Letters *Graduate School of Science and Technology *Graduate School of Agriculture *Graduate School of Governance Studies *Graduate School of Global Business *Graduate School of Professional Accountancy *Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences

Law school

*Department of Law

Campus life

Meiji University's baseball team belongs to the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League. Every year,

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and

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matches ''Meisōsen'' () against Waseda University attract support among its students. It also has a successful judo team. The university announced on February 26, 2009, that it would open a museum dedicated to

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and

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. It will include international research centers hosting Japanese and international scholars as well as a large quality of artifacts on the subject.

Academic rankings

Meiji University is one of the leading universities in Japan.

General rankings

The university has been ranked 19th and 26th in 2009 and 2010 respectively in the ranking " Truly Strong Universities" (本当に強い大学) by Toyo Keizai.

Research performance

The '' Nikkei Shimbun'' on 16 February 2004 surveyed about the research standards in

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based on Thomson Reuters, Grants in Aid for Scientific Research and questionnaires to heads of 93 leading Japanese Research Centers, and Meiji was placed 37th in this ranking. Meiji has filed the 62nd highest number of patents in the nation as its research outcomes.

Graduate school rankings

Meiji Law School is considered one of the top Japanese law schools, as Meiji's number of successful candidates for Japanese bar examination has been 14th and 20th in 2009 and 2010 respectively. It is one of the strongest department in this university as the cumulative number of people qualified as lawyer and prosecutor has been historically sixth after WW2. Eduniversal ranked Meiji as fourth in the rankings of "Excellent Business Schools nationally strong and/or with continental links" in Japan. Meiji University is one of the top 10 private universities in Japan.

Alumni rankings

Graduates from Meiji enjoy good success in the Japanese industries. According to the Weekly Economist's 2010 rankings, graduates from Meiji University have the 35th best employment rate in 400 major companies The university is also ranked sixth in Japan for the number of alumni holding the position of executive in the listed companies of Japan, and this number per student (probability of becoming an executive) is 25th. Meiji graduates have been ranked fifth in Japan in the number of successful national CPA exam applicants. Its graduates have been also ranked ninth in Japan in the number of successful Architect Registration exam applicants. Furthermore, the number of Members of Parliament who graduated Meiji is sixth in Japan.

Popularity and selectivity

Meiji is a popular university in Japan. The number of applicants per place was 24.9 (113,905/4,582) in the 2011 undergraduate admissions, this number of applicants (113,905) was largest in 2011. Its entrance difficulty is also very selective. Meiji university is regarded as comparable with the Tokyo-area private universities Aoyama Gakuin, Rikkyo, Chuo, and Hosei collectively called "MARCH". It has an entrance examination difficulty level that is in the top 10 for a private university in Japan.

Alumni

Politics

World leaders

*The 66th Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Miki (1974–1976) *The 81st Japanese Prime Minister

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(1994–1996) *The first Chinese Premier

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Other politicians

*Dr. Gibril Ibrahim (Minister of Finance and Economic Planning) in the republic of Sudan. * Xie Jishi ( Manchu Empire Foreign Minister) * Hasegawa Nyozekan * Yōsuke Matsuoka (Minister for Foreign Affairs) *

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(chairman of the Japan Socialist Party) *

Takashi Sasagawa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Bunkyō, Tokyo and dropout from Meiji University, he was elected for the first time in 1986 after ...

(Minister) * Ken Harada (Minister of Economic Planning) * Masayuki Fujio (Minister of Education) *

Hiromichi Watanabe is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives of Japan, House of Representatives in the Diet of Japan, Diet (national legislature). A native of Matsudo, Matsu ...

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* Fumiaki Matsumoto *

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(Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare) *

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(Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications) * Satoshi Takayama * Shigeo Kitamura * Yoshio Urushibara * Koichi Tani *

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* Masaaki Akaike * Naoki Inose ( Governor of Tokyo, journalist) *

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, US Senator

Others

* Yū Aku (lyricist, poet, and novelist） *

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(basketball player) * Hideki Arai (manga artist) *

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(singer) * Yuta Fujihara (professional soccer player) *

Tatsuji Fuse was a Japanese lawyer and social activist. Fuse was posthumously awarded the Order of Merit for National Foundation in 2004 by the South Korean government for his efforts for Korean independence movement. Early life Fuse was born in the rural ...

(Korean independence movement custodian) *

Hideo Gosha was a Japanese film director. Born in Arasaka, Tokyo Prefecture, Gosha graduated from high school and served in the Imperial Navy during the Second World War. After earning a business degree at Meiji University, he joined Nippon television as a ...

(film director) * Koji Hashimoto (professional soccer player) * Masaaki Hatsumi (martial artist, founder of Bujinkan) *

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(professional wrestling referee,

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) * Syu Hiraide (novelist, lawyer) *

Takafumi Hori is a former Japanese football player. He last managed Tokyo Verdy. His brother Naoto Hori is also a footballer. Playing career Hori was born in Atsugi on September 10, 1967. After graduating from Meiji University, he joined Toshiba in 1990. H ...

(soccer manager) * Senichi Hoshino (baseball player, manager) *

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(member of Hey! Say! JUMP, idol, actor, singer) * Mao Inoue (actress) * Sogo Ishii * Kensuke Isidu (fashion designer) *

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(novelist) * Kaiji Kawaguchi (manga artist) * Yuzo Kawashima (film director) * Kan Kikuchi (novelist) * Keiko Kitagawa (actress) * Yuki Kobayashi (professional soccer player) * Ryuki Miura (professional soccer player) * Mayumi Mizuno (announcer) * Masaru Kitano (doctor of engineering and TV commentator) * Takeshi Kitano (film director) * Daichi Kiyono (actor, rugby player) * Akira Kobayashi (film actor) *

Yasuo Kobayashi is a Japanese aikido teacher holding the rank of 8th dan Aikikai. Kobayashi was born in Kudan, Chiyoda-ku, in Tokyo. Though he started practicing judo as a child at the Kodokan, he eventually switched to aikido soon after starting university ...

(aikido instructor) *

Masao Koga was a Japanese composer, mandolinist, and guitarist of the Shōwa era who was dubbed "Japan's Irving Berlin" by Universal Press Syndicate. His melancholy style, based upon Nakayama Shimpei's '' yonanuki'' scale, was popularly known in Japan as ...

(composer) *

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(Preacher) * Shigeaki Kosugi (freelance broadcaster/actor) * Keiichiro Koyama (actor, singer (J-pop group

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), former MC ( Shounen Club) *

Kazufumi Miyazawa is the founder of the Japanese bands The Boom and Ganga Zumba. The former was noted in the 1990s for a fusion of rock, pop, and local Okinawan folk music. Miyazawa is responsible for virtually all lyrics and music for The Boom, who are best kn ...

(composer, singer) * Showtaro Morikubo (voice actor, actor, singer) *

Osamu Mukai is a Japanese actor. He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Meiji University. Early life He was born in Isogo-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture and went to Hama Junior high school (浜中学校) and Hitorizawa High schoo ...

(actor) *

Yuto Nagatomo is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a full back for Japanese club FC Tokyo and the Japan national team. A graduate from the Meiji University, Nagatomo started his professional career with FC Tokyo in 2007, quickly establishing ...

(professional soccer player) * Toshiyuki Nishida (film actor) *

Hiroshi Ohshita , also spelled Oshita, was a Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder who began his career after World War II. Known for his trademark blue bat, he hit a record 20 home runs in a season and was home run king and leading hitter three times for th ...

(Professional Baseball Player, Hall of famer) *

Yoshiaki Oiwa is a Japanese equestrian. "Yoshi", as he is known, began riding as a junior high school student and took up eventing at University. In 2001 Yoshi he moved to the UK in order to pursue eventing trained by Andrew Hoy and in 2009 he moved to Germ ...

(Equestrian Eventing Rider) * Kihachi Okamoto (film director) * Ren Osugi (film actor) * Toshio Sakai (photographer) *

Motoi Sakuraba is a Japanese composer and keyboardist. He is known for his numerous contributions in video games, such as for '' Tales'', ''Star Ocean'', ''Mario Golf'', '' Mario Tennis'', ''Golden Sun'', and ''Dark Souls'' series, as well as several other ani ...

(composer, musician) *

Kazuhiro Sano is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor best known for his ''pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Takahisa Zeze, Toshiki Satō and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the . Sano's films differ from those of oth ...

(film director and actor) * Kiyoshi Sasabe (film director) * Mamoru Sasaki (screenwriter) * Norio Sasaki (soccer manager) * Kentaro Seki (professional soccer player) * Fusako Shigenobu (activist) *

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(film director) * Sohn Kee-chung ( marathon runner) * Kokichi Sugihara (mathematician and artist) *

Denmei Suzuki was a Japanese film actor most famous for starring roles in gendaigeki of the silent era. Career Suzuki was born in Tokyo and was a championship swimmer at Meiji University when he first appeared in '' Souls on the Road'' in 1921 under the ...

(film actor) * Shigeyoshi Suzuki (film director) *

Yuzo Takada is the pseudonym of , a popular Japanese manga artist. He worked as an assistant for manga artist Fujihiko Hosono before starting his career as an original author. His first work appeared in November 1983 in ''Young Magazine'', and his first ser ...

(manga artist) * Ken Takakura (film actor) * Buyūzan Takeyoshi ( sumo wrestler) * Noboru Tanaka (film director) * Kenichiro Teratsuji (KENCHI) (dancer and actor) * Eijirō Tōno (film actor) * Keigo Tsunemoto (professional soccer player) * Ryoichi Uchimura (Keishicho, Kendo player, 2-time All Japan winner) * Naomi Uemura (mountain climber, adventurer) *

Moriteru Ueshiba is a Japanese master of aikido. He is a grandson of Morihei Ueshiba, founder of aikido, and son of Kisshomaru Ueshiba. Ueshiba is the third and current '' Doshu'' (hereditary head) of the Aikikai. Biography Ueshiba was born on April 2, 1951, in ...

(Third Aikido Doshu) * Koji Yamamoto (basketball player) *

Mizuki Yamamoto is a Japanese actress and model. Biography Yamamoto was born in Fukuoka Prefecture. She started her career as an exclusive model for the women's fashion magazine CanCam in 2009. Two years later, she made her acting debut in the Fuji TV drama ' ...

(model, actress) * Tatsuro Yamashita (composer, singer) * Tomohisa Yamashita (actor, singer) *

Yoshihiro Yonezawa was a Japanese manga critic and author. He is also known for being Comiket's co-founder and president. He died of lung cancer at 53. He won the 2007 Seiun Award in the special category and 2010 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Special Award. Biog ...

* Tom Yoda (Business Administration Graduate), current councilor of the university and ex-chairman of Avex Group * Kenjirou Tsuda (actor, voice actor) * Shingo Fujimori (Oriental Radio/Comedian) * Chicara Jericho (voice actress) *

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(actor)

Sister Universities

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References

External links

Meiji University website
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