, or is a Japanese national university located in

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in the

Tōhoku Region The , Northeast region, or consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. This traditional region consists of six prefectures (''ken''): Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi, and Yamagata. Tōhoku ret ...

, Japan. It is informally referred to as . Established in 1907, it was the third Imperial University in Japan and among the first three Designated National Universities, along with the

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and

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. Tohoku University is a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project, and since 2020 has been ranked the best university in Japan by

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. In 2016, Tohoku University had 10 faculties, 16 graduate schools and 6 research institutes, with a total enrollment of 17,885 students. The university's three core values are "Research First (研究第一主義)," "Open-Doors (門戸開放)," and "Practice-Oriented Research and Education (実学尊重)."

History

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On June 22, 1907(明治40年,''Mēji yonjyunen''), the university was established under the name by the

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as the third Imperial University of Japan, following the Tokyo Imperial University (1877) and the Kyoto Imperial University (1897). From its start, it has advocated "Open-door" policies—it was the first university in Japan to accept female students (in 1913) and foreign students. In September 1907, it set up the faculty of Agriculture in

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous ci ...

; the . It set up the Science Department in 1911, and the Medical Department (formerly the Sendai Medical College) in 1915. In 1918 it ceded the Faculty of Agriculture to

Hokkaido Imperial University , or , is a Japanese national university in Sapporo, Hokkaido. It was the fifth Imperial University in Japan, which were established to be the nation's finest institutions of higher education or research. Hokkaido University is considered ...

. It subsequently launched Faculties of Engineering in 1919, and Law and Literature in 1922. In 1947 the university assumed its current name, Tohoku University, and acquired a new Faculty of Agriculture. In 1949, the Faculty of Law and Literature was split to form new faculties of Law, Literature, and Economics. A Faculty of Education was added in 1949, Dentistry in 1965, and Pharmacy in 1972. Tohoku has been a

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since April 2004.

2011 Tōhoku earthquake

Subsequent to the

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami The occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March. The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (M) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region, and lasted approximately six m ...

, the university was declared closed until further notice, but with a tentative re-opening date of the end of the following April. The Aobayama, Katahira, Amamiya, and Kawauchi campuses are all at least from the ocean, towards the mountains, and therefore suffered no damage resulting from the tsunami. No deaths or serious injuries within the faculty and student body were reported on campus grounds. However, earthquake damage lead to the closure of 27 buildings and caused millions of dollars of damage to equipment. Classes have resumed normally since early May 2011 and plans for restoring, reinforcing or replacing damaged buildings are underway. The radiology department has been actively measuring radiation levels throughout the city of Sendai since the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant meltdown, which is about 100 kilometers south. So far no alarming levels of radiation have been detected.

Campuses

Campus locations

Principal four campuses are in the

Sendai is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,091,407 in 525,828 households, and is one of Japan's 20 designated cities. The city was founded in 1600 by the ''daimyō'' Date M ...

City, Japan; * :Administration Unit. and Principal institutes * :North-Kawauchi; The freshmen and sophomore of all undergraduates :South-Kawauchi; Law, Education, Economics, Letters * :Medicine, Dentistry * :Science, Engineering, Pharmacy, Agriculture Amamiya campus and some institutes transferred to the new extension at Aobayama campus in April 201

Organization

The university's Research Center for Prediction of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions is represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction.Organizations with ties to CCEP
CCEP, accessed 2011-03-19 Traditional number and configuration ( ) is Part-time lecturer.

Research institutes

* * * * :''National Collaborative Research Institute'' * * * Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (東北メディカル・メガバンク機構, ''Tōhoku Medikaru Megabanku kikō'')

Centers and facilities

The 21st Century Center Of Excellence Programs

Academic rankings

Tohoku University is one of the most prestigious universities in Japan. It can be seen in the several rankings such as shown below.

General rankings

Tohoku University has been ranked first in the 2020 Times Higher Education Japan University Rankings.「THE世界大学ランキング日本版2020」東北大学が初のトップに｜THE世界大学ランキング日本版
/ref> According to 2011

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the university rose to 70th having dropped out of the top 100 in 2010 to 102nd, and having been 97th in the 2009 THE-QS World University Rankings (in 2010

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and

parted ways to produce separate rankings). It was also ranked 49th worldwide according to the

Global University Ranking College and university rankings order the best institutions in higher education based on factors that vary depending on the ranking. Some rankings evaluate institutions within a single country, while others assess institutions worldwide. Rankings ...

in 2009.http://www.globaluniversitiesranking.org/images/banners/top-100(eng).pdf

Research performance

Tohoku University is one of the top research institutions in Japan. According to

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, Tohoku University is the fourth best research university in Japan. Its research excellence is especially distinctive in Materials Science (1st in Japan, third in the world), Physics (2nd in Japan, tenth in the world), Pharmacology & Toxicology (3rd in Japan, 64th in the world) and Chemistry (6th in Japan, 20th in the world). (this ranking includes non-educational institutions)

also reported that Tohoku University was ranked 3rd in Japan (201st - 250th in the world) for the World University Rankings 2022 by Subject:

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the o ...

. The social sciences ranking includes the weightings such as Research: volume, income and reputation (accounts for 32.6 per cent) and Citations: research influence (accounts for 25 per cent). In addition,

Nature Index The Nature Index is a database that tracks institutions and countries and their scientific output since its introduction in November, 2014. Each year, Nature Index ranks the leading institutions (which can be companies, universities, government agen ...

ranked Tohoku University as 5th in Japan (103rd in the world, 38th in Asia Pacific) on 2022 tables: Institutions. The 2022 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021. Before the 2022 edition, Nature Index also ranked Tohoku University as 5th in Japan (77th in the world, 28th in Asia Pacific) on 2021 tables: Institutions, that are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020. According to the

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　on 2012/9 surveyed about the general standards in Engineering&Technology field, Tohoku university was placed 56th (world), fifth (national). As Tohoku University has been emphasizing 'practical' research, Tohoku received the top place for its number of patents accepted (324) during 2009 among Japanese Universities.

Graduate school rankings

Tohoku University Law School is one of the most famous Law schools in Japan, as it was ranked fifth in the passing rate of Japanese Bar Examination in 2020.

Alumni rankings

Mines ParisTech : Professional Ranking World Universities ranks Tohoku University as 13th in the world (5th in Japan) in 2011 in terms of the number of alumni listed among CEOs in the 500 largest worldwide companies.

Popularity and selectivity

Tohoku University is one of the most selective universities in Japan. Its entrance difficulty is usually considered one of the top in Japan. Japanese journalist Kiyoshi Shimano ranks its entrance difficulty as SA (most selective/out of 11 scales) in Japan.

Evaluation from business world

People

Successive presidents

Notable people associated with Tohoku University

Many world-class celebrities have attended or served at Tohoku University.

Sciences

File:Koichi_Tanaka_2003.jpg, Koichi Tanaka (田中耕一), chemist, 2002

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winner. File:Akira_Endo_cropped_3_Akira_Endo_201111.jpg, Akira Endo (遠藤章), biochemist, known for the discovery of first

statin Statins, also known as HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, are a class of lipid-lowering medications that reduce illness and mortality in those who are at high risk of cardiovascular disease. They are the most common cholesterol-lowering drugs. L ...

. File:Atsuto_Suzuki_cropped_2_Atsuto_Suzuki_and_Piermaria_Oddone_201010.jpg,

Atsuto Suzuki is an experimental particle physicist known for his observations of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos. Career Suzuki earned his doctorate from Tohoku University in 1974, supervised by Masatoshi Koshiba. In 1982 he was appointed to the faculty of th ...

(鈴木厚人), physicist, 2016

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board. Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, it was founded in July 2012 by Russia-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture cap ...

winner. File:Hideo_Ohno.jpg, Hideo Ohno (大野英男), physicist, the 22nd president of Tohoku University. * Hitoshi Oshitani (押谷仁), scientist, virologist and public health expert. *

Tetsuo Nozoe Tetsuo Nozoe (野副鉄男, 16 May 1902 – 4 April 1996) was a Japanese organic chemist. He is known for the discovery of hinokitiol, a seven-membered aromatic compound, and studying non-benzenoid aromatic compounds. Early life and career Tetsu ...

(野副鉄男), chemist, known for hinokitiol. * Tsutomu Ōhashi (大橋力), artist and scientist, Doctor of Agriculture. *

Syun-Ichi Akasofu is the founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), serving in that position from the center's establishment in 1998 until January 2007. Previously he had been director of the univer ...

(赤祖父俊一), geophysicist, the founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of UAF. * Hiroshi Maeda (前田浩), pharmacologist and chemist, known for discovery of

EPR effect The enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect is a controversial concept by which molecules of certain sizes (typically liposomes, nanoparticles, and macromolecular drugs) tend to accumulate in tumor tissue much more than they do in normal ...

. * Morio Kasai (葛西森夫, 1922–2008), a surgeon who developed the

Kasai procedure A hepatoportoenterostomy or Kasai portoenterostomy is a surgical treatment performed on infants with Type IVb choledochal cyst and biliary atresia to allow for bile drainage. In these infants, the bile is not able to drain normally from the small ...

for biliary atresia. *

Chen Wei-jao Chen Wei-jao (; born 15 November 1939) is a Taiwanese surgeon and academic administrator. Early life and career Chen was born in Taichū Prefecture on 15 November 1939. He studied medicine at National Taiwan University (NTU) and completed his ...

(陳維昭), a surgeon and president of

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imper ...

. *

Lo Tung-bin Lo Tung-bin (; 15 February 1927 – 13 May 2019), also known as T. B. Lo, was a Taiwanese biochemist. A pioneer in the research on proteins in Taiwan, he was elected an academician of Academia Sinica in 1986. He served as Dean of the College of Sc ...

(羅銅壁), biochemist, pioneer in the research on proteins in Taiwan. * Susumu Satomi (里見進), a surgeon and president of Tohoku University. * Ryuta Kawashima (川島隆太), neuroscientist, currently resident professor, the supervisor of Nintendo DS gamesofts; '' Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!'' and '' Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old is Your Brain?'' * Noriko Osumi (大隅典子), neuroscientist, the vice president of Tohoku University (2018–). * Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi, president of

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Engineering

File:Kotaro_Honda.jpg, Kotaro Honda (本多光太郎), former president, 1932

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nominee. File:Masataka_Ogawa.jpg,

Masataka Ogawa was a Japanese chemist mainly known for the claimed discovery of element 43 (later known as technetium), which he named nipponium. In fact, he might have discovered, but misidentified, element 75 (later called rhenium). After graduating from ...

(小川正孝), former president, known for the discovery of rhenium. File:Hidetsugu_Yagi.jpg, Hidetsugu Yagi (八木秀次), electrical engineer, mentor of Yagi–Uda antenna. File:名城2010Fとともに.jpg, Sumio Iijima (飯島澄男), physicist, inventor of

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. File:Masatoshi_Shima.jpg, Masatoshi Shima (嶋正利), inventor of

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Intel 4004. *

Shintaro Uda was a Japanese inventor, and assistant to Professor Hidetsugu Yagi at Tohoku Imperial University, where together they invented the Yagi–Uda antenna in 1926. In February 1926, Yagi and Uda published their first report on the wave projector a ...

(宇田新太郎), an inventor of the Yagi-Uda antenna 1926, the ubiquitous television antenna. * Jun-Ichi Nishizawa (西澤潤一), the engineer known for inventing optical communication systems including

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laser diode The laser diode chip removed and placed on the eye of a needle for scale A laser diode (LD, also injection laser diode or ILD, or diode laser) is a semiconductor device similar to a light-emitting diode in which a diode pumped directly with e ...

and so forth, PIN diode and SIT/SITh. * Fujio Masuoka (舛岡富士雄), the developer of

Flash Memory Flash memory is an electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. The two main types of flash memory, NOR flash and NAND flash, are named for the NOR and NAND logic gates. Both u ...

. * Masayoshi Esashi (江刺正喜), engineer, the global authority of

Microelectromechanical systems Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), also written as micro-electro-mechanical systems (or microelectronic and microelectromechanical systems) and the related micromechatronics and microsystems constitute the technology of microscopic devices, ...

. * Toshitada Doi (土井利忠), a pioneer in digital audio, originated Aibo the pet

robot A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be ...

. *

Fumihiko Imamura is a Japanese academic, civil engineer, and Director of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.Library of Congress Authority File Fumihiko Imamura, n95-80017/ref> After the 2004 ...

(今村文彦),

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing i ...

, the natural disaster expert for NHK after

CNN rebroadcasting NHK, 13 March 2011. * Masataka Nakazawa (中沢正隆), pioneer of optical solitons in high-speed optical communication in fiber optic networks and rare earth-doped optical amplifiers (such as EDFA).

Literature and art

File:LuXun1930.jpg,

Lu Xun Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), better known by his pen name Lu Xun (or Lu Sun; ; Wade–Giles: Lu Hsün), was a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He was a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. W ...

(魯迅), the greatest writer in modern China. File:井土霊山_Ido_Reizan.jpg, Reizan Ido (井土霊山), a journalist, writer, poet, and involved in Freedom and People's Rights Movement. File:Kita_Morio.jpg, Morio Kita (北杜夫), novelist, 1960

Akutagawa Prize The is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. Because of its prestige and the considerable attention the winner receives from the media, it is, along with the Naoki Prize, one of Japan's most sought after literary prizes. History ...

winner. *

Ben Goto Tsutomu “Ben” Goto (五島勉, ''Gotō Ben'', 17 November 1929 – 16 June 2020) was a Japanese journalist and writer best known for his books on Nostradamus. Early life and career Goto was born into a Christian family in Hakodate, Hokkai ...

(五島勉), a Japanese writer. * Hayao Hamada (浜田隼雄), a Taiwanese author. * Tadao Ooike (大池唯雄), novelist, 1938 Naoki Prize winner. * Yō Tsumoto (津本陽), novelist, 1978 Naoki Prize winner. *

Akihiko Nakamura is a Japanese decathlete. He competed in the 400 m hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor ...

(中村彰彦), novelist, 1994 Naoki Prize winner. * Kenichi Satō (佐藤賢一), novelist, 1999 Naoki Prize winner. * Toh EnJoe (円城塔), author, 2012

, Nihon SF Taisho Award, and 2013 Seiun Award winner. *

Yuichi Kodama Yuichi Kodama (児玉裕一 ''Kodama Yuichi''） is a Japanese video director. He has mainly directed music videos and ads. He often produces music videos and ads that are strongly connected or "tied-up" to each other, such as Perfume's "Secret Secr ...

(児玉裕一), a Japanese video director. * Kazumasa Oda (小田和正), one of the most famous musicians in pop music in Japan since the 1970s. *

Kōtarō Isaka is a Japanese author of mystery fiction, best known for his ''Hitman'' novel/manga series, including '' Maoh: Juvenile Remix'' (2007–2009), the first of which, ''3 Assassins'' (2004, Japanese; 2022, English), was adapted as a Japanese feature ...

(伊坂幸太郎), a

mystery fiction Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within a closed circle of suspects, each suspect is usually provided with a credible motive and a re ...

writer, Japan Booksellers Award and Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize winner. * Hideaki Sena (瀬名秀明), a

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imagination, imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, Paral ...

writer and Nihon SF Taisho Award winner. * Chūsei Sone (曽根中生), a Japanese film director and screenwriter. * Kenji Suzuki (鈴木健二), an announcer of the NHK * Chinggeltei (1924–2013), a Mongolist, the former vice-rector of Inner Mongolia University

Mathematic, economics and business

File:Shizuo_Kakutani.jpg, Shizuo Kakutani (角谷静夫), mathematician, professor at

Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

, known for Kakutani fixed-point theorem. File:SonyFair2008_Opening_Ryoji_Chubachi.jpg,

Ryōji Chūbachi SonyFair2008 Opening Ryoji Chubachi is a Japanese businessman, former vice chairman and president of Sony Corporation. He joined the company in 1977, later replacing Kunitake Andō to become president of the firm March 7, 2005. He was replaced a ...

(中鉢良治), a Japanese businessman, former vice chairman and president of Sony Corporation *

Nobuhiko Kawamoto was the CEO of Honda Motor from 1990 to 1998. Biography After graduating from Tohoku University in 1963, he joined the Honda F1 team as a design engineer. After Honda pulled out of F1 after the 1968 season to focus on production vehicles, he retur ...

(川本信彦), CEO of

Honda Motor is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a product ...

until 1995. *

Hirofumi Uzawa was a Japanese economist. Biography Uzawa was born on July 21, 1928 in Yonago, Tottori to a farming family. He attended the Tokyo First Middle School (currently the Hibiya High School ) and the First Higher School, Japan (now the University o ...

(宇沢弘文), an economist, the father of Theoretical Economics in Japan. *

Su Buqing Su Buqing, also spelled Su Buchin (; September 23, 1902 – March 17, 2003), was a Chinese mathematician, educator and poet. He was the founder of differential geometry in China, and served as president of Fudan University and honorary chairman ...

(蘇歩青), a Chinese mathematician and former president of

Fudan University Fudan University () is a national public research university in Shanghai, China. Fudan is a member of the C9 League, Project 985, Project 211, and the Double First Class University identified by the Ministry of Education of China. It is ...

. * Chen Jiangong (陈建功), pioneer of modern Chinese mathematics. * Yasumasa Kanada (金田康正), a mathematician most known for his numerous world records over the past two decades for calculating digits of π. * Shigeo Sasaki (佐々木重夫), a professor emeritus and mathematician who introduced the Sasaki manifold

Politics

File:Matsumae_Shigeyoshi.JPG, Shigeyoshi Matsumae (松前重義), a Japanese politician, electrical engineer, and founder of Tokai University. File:Yukio Edano in SL Square on 2017 - 4 (cropped).jpg, Yukio Edano (枝野幸男), a Japanese politician and a member of the

House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...

in the Diet. File:Eisuke_Mori.jpg, Eisuke Mori (森英介), a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. File:Mori_Masako_(2019).jpg, Masako Mori (森まさこ), a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. *

Masayuki Aoyama is a Japanese attorney and politician who represents Shizuoka Prefecture in the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives. Legal career Aoyama was born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Shizuoka City and graduated from the faculty of law ...

(青山雅幸), Japanese politician in the

. * Mitsuru Sakurai (桜井充), Japanese politician of the

Democratic Party of Japan The was a centristThe Democratic Party of Japan was widely described as centrist: * * * * * * * to centre-left liberal or social-liberal political party in Japan from 1998 to 2016. The party's origins lie in the previous Democratic ...

. * Kenya Akiba (秋葉賢也), a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. *

Akira Koike is a Japanese politician and physician who is the secretariat head and vice chair of the Japanese Communist Party. He also serves as a member of the House of Councillors The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House ...

(小池晃), a Japanese politician of

Japanese Communist Party The is a left-wing to far-left political party in Japan. With approximately 270,000 members belonging to 18,000 branches, it is one of the largest non-governing communist parties in the world. The party advocates the establishment of a democ ...

. * Nori Sasaki (佐々木紀), Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan. * Yoshihisa Inoue (井上義久), Japanese politician of the New Komeito Party. *

Emiko Okuyama Emiko Okuyama (born June 23, 1951) is a Japanese politician. She served as the mayor of Sendai from 2009 to 2017. Career Okuyama was born in Akita City, Japan on June 23, 1951. Her father was a public official, and when Okuyama was a child he ...

(奥山恵美子), Mayor of

, 2009–2017.

References

External links

Tohoku UniversityAnnual review
{{Authority control Buildings and structures in Sendai Japanese national universities National Seven Universities Universities and colleges in Miyagi Prefecture Educational institutions established in 1907 1907 establishments in Japan