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, formerly "Science University of Tokyo" or TUS, informally or simply is a

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research university located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

History

Tokyo University of Science was founded in 1881 as The Tokyo Academy of Physics by 21 graduates of the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo (then the Imperial University). In 1883, it was renamed the Tokyo College of Science, and in 1949, it attained university status and became the Tokyo University of Science. The leading character appearing in Japanese novelist

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's novel

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graduated from Tokyo University of Science. , it is the only private university in Japan that has produced a Nobel Prize winner and the only private university in Asia to produce Nobel Prize winners within the natural sciences field.

Academic rankings

Global university rankings

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ranked Tokyo University of Science in equal 13th place in Japan.

Graduate school rankings

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ranked Tokyo University of Science second in its rankings of "Top business school with significant international influence" in Japan.

Alumni rankings

In Times Higher Education ranking of CEOs of the world's largest enterprises, it is ranked third for Japanese universities.

Campuses

Tokyo University of Science main campus is located in the Kagurazaka district of

Shinjuku is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative centre, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world (Shinjuku Station) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administration ...

. The nearest station is Iidabashi Station. Apart from the main campus in Shinjuku, there are other campuses around the country: * Kagurazaka (Main) Campus: Shinjuku * Fujimi school building:

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward located in central Tokyo, Japan. It is known as Chiyoda City in English language, English.

* Katsushika Campus: Katsushika-ku, Tokyo * Noda Campus:

Noda, Chiba is a city located in the northwestern corner of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 154,114 in 69,191 households and a population density of 1500 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . The city is famous ...

* Oshamambe Campus: Oshamambe, Hokkaido

Facilities

Libraries

Tokyo University of Science has libraries in four different areas: Kagurazaka, Noda, Katsushika and Oshamambe. * Kagurazaka Library * Noda Library * Katsushika Library * Oshamambe Library

Museum and other facilities

Ridai Museum of Modern Science - Tokyo, Japan - DSC04697

Other libraries on Tokyo University of Science campuses include: * Science and Technology Museum * Athletic Facilities * Seminar House * Training Center * Morito Memorial Hall

Undergraduate and graduate schools

Undergraduate schools

*Science Division I *Engineering *Pharmaceutical Sciences *Science and Technology *Industrial Science and Technology *Management *Science Division II

Graduate schools

*Science *Chemical Sciences and Technology *Mathematics and Science Education *Engineering *Pharmaceutical Sciences *Science and Technology *Industrial Science and Technology *Management *Biological Sciences *Innovation Studies *Global Fire Science and Technology

Professional graduate schools

*Management of Science and Technology (MOT) *Master of Intellectual Property (MIP)

Special Training Course for Teachers

*Division of Mathematics

Research institutes

*University Research Administration Center **Planning and Management Division **Research Strategy Formulation Division **Research & Industry University Cooperation Supporting Division **Regional Alliance & Commercialization Promotion Division *Research Institute for Science and Technology **Research Centers ***Center for Fire Science and Technology ***IR FEL Research Center ***Research Center for Chirality ***Photocatalysis International Research Center ***Translational Research Center ***Imaging Frontier Center ***Water Frontier Science & Technology Research Center ***Research Center for Space Colony **Research Divisions ***Division of Pharmaco-creation Frontier ***Division of Integrated Science of Oshamambe town ***Division of Advanced Communication Researches ***International Research Division of Interfacial Thermo-fluid Dynamics ***Division of Nanocarbon Research ***Division of Bio-organometallics ***Division of Thermoelectrics for Waste Heat Recovery ***Division of Colloid and Interface Science ***Division of Synergetic Supramolecular Coordination Systems in Multiphase ***Division of Advanced Urbanism and Architecture ***Academic Detailing Database Division ***Division of Medical-Science-Engineering Cooperation ***Division of Mathematical Modeling and its Mathematical Analysis ***Water Frontier Science Research Division ***Fusion of Regenerative Medicine with DDS ***Photovoltaic Science and Technology Research Division ***Advanced EC Device Research Division ***Division of Agri-biotechnology ***Division of Things and Systems ***Atmospheric Science Research Division ***Division of Super Distributed Intelligent Systems ***Brain Interdisciplinary Research Division ***Division of Intelligent System Engineering ***Advanced Agricultural Energy Science and Technology Research Division **Joint Usage / Research Center ***Research Center for Fire Safety Science ***Photocatalysis International Research Center *Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences **Research Institute Division Groups ***Division of Immunobiology ***Division of Molecular Biology ***Division of Biosignaling ***Division of Molecular Pathology ***Division of Development and Aging ***Division of Experimental Animal Immunology ***Division of Clinical Research ***Division of Intramural Cooperation ***Division of Extramural Cooperation *Research Equipment Center *Center for Data Science

Academic exchange agreements overseas

As of 2016, Tokyo University of Science had academic exchange agreements with 75 overseas universities and research institutions, including those between departments and departments.

Affiliated schools

The university has two affiliated four-year universities: Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi, in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi, and Tokyo University of Science, Suwa, in Chino, Nagano.

Principals, presidents, and chairmen

Principals

* Hisashi Terao, 1883-1896History of TUS Presidents
Tokyo University of Science. Retrieved March 26, 2017. * Kiyoo Nakamura, 1896–1930Brief History
Tokyo University of Science. Retrieved March 20, 2017. * Kyohei Nakamura, 1930–1934 * Masatoshi Ōkōchi, 1934–1945学校法人東京理科大学の沿革
Tokyo University of Science. Retrieved March 20, 2017. * Nakagoro Hirakawa, 1945–1949 * Kotaro Honda, 1949–1951 :Concurrently appointed president of Tokyo University of Science.

Presidents

* Kotaro Honda, 1949–1953 * Masaichi Majima, 1955-1966 *

Seishi Kikuchi was a Japanese physicist, known for his explanation of the Kikuchi lines that show up in diffraction patterns of diffusely scattered electrons. Biography Seishi Kikuchi was born and grew up in Tokyo. He graduated in 1926 from Tokyo Imperial Un ...

, 1966-1970 *

Masao Kotani was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for molecular physics and biophysics. Kotani was born in Kyoto and spent his primary and middle school days in Osaka. He moved to Tokyo to enter the First Higher School and then the Imperial University ...

, 1970-1982 * Masao Yoshiki, 1982-1990 * Tetsuji Nishikawa, 1990-2001 * Hiroyuki Okamura, 2002-2005 * Shin Takeuchi, 2006-2009 * Akira Fujishima, 2010-2018, discoverer of photocatalyst * Yoichiro Matsumoto, 2018-

Chairmen

* Kotaro Honda, 1951–1953History of TUS Chairmans
Tokyo University of Science. Retrieved March 24, 2017. * Nakagoro Hirakawa, 1953-1978 * Shigeyoshi Kittaka, 1978-1997 * Sanjiro Sakabe, 1997-1999 * Nobuyuki Koura, 1999-2002 * Takeyo Tsukamoto, 2002-2012 * Shigeru Nakane, 2012-2015 * Kazuo Motoyama, 2015-

Notable faculty

Makoto Asashima is a Japanese developmental biologist known for his pioneer research on Activin. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and Yokohama City University. He is also Vice President of the Tokyo University of Science. Contribution Asashi ...

, Vice President, discoverer of

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Michael A. Cusumano Michael A. Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor and Deputy Dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Previously he held a joint appointment in the MIT School of Engineering, Division of Engineering Systems. Professor Cus ...

, business administration, vice president, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor *

Chiaki Mukai is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights, and the first Asian woman in space. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Spac ...

JAXA The is the Japanese national air and space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003. JAXA is responsible for research, technology development and launch of satellites into orb ...

astronaut, Vice President *

Teruaki Mukaiyama was a Japanese organic chemist. One of the most prolific chemists of the 20th century in the field of organic synthesis, Mukaiyama helped establish the field of organic chemistry in Japan after World War II. Education Mukaiyama studied chemistr ...

, chemist, former professor, discoverer of Mukaiyama aldol addition *

Kensō Soai (born 1950) is a Japanese organic chemist. He is a university lecturer in the Applied Chemistry Department of Tokyo University of Science. Soai studied at the University of Tokyo, where he received his Ph.D. in 1979 in organic synthesis under Ter ...

, chemist, professor, discoverer of Soai reaction *

Jaw-Shen Tsai Jaw-Shen Tsai ( Tsai Jaw-Shen, born February 8, 1952, in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese physicist. He is a professor at the Tokyo University of Science and a team leader of the Superconducting Quantum Simulation Research Team at the Center for Em ...

, physicist, professor *

Noriaki Kano Noriaki Kano (狩野紀昭 ''Kanō Noriaki,'' pronounced ) is a Japanese educator, lecturer, writer, and consultant in the field of quality management. He is the developer of a customer satisfaction model (now known as the Kano model) whose simp ...

, professor emeritus * Kazunori Kataoka, former professor, Humboldt Prize winner * Norio Taniguchi, former professor, Proponent of

Nanotechnology Nanotechnology, also shortened to nanotech, is the use of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale for industrial purposes. The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal o ...

Notable alumni

Nobel prize laureates

* Satoshi Ōmura, biochemist, 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner

Government

* Shigeru Yoshida, Prime Minister, (Attended University 1896 but dropped out)

Business

* Kazuo Motoyama, President of Asahi Soft Drinks, 2013-2015, Chairman of TUS 2015- *

Philip M. Condit Philip Murray Condit (born August 2, 1941) is an American engineer and businessman who was Chair and Chief executive officer (CEO) of the Boeing company from 1996 to 2003. He dramatically reshaped the company by Merger with McDonnell Douglas and r ...

, CEO of Boeing, 1996-2003 * Toshihiro Suzuki, CEO of

Suzuki is a Japan, Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. Suzuki manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, All-terrain vehicle, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard motor, outboard marine engines, wheelchairs ...

, 2016- * Seiichi Sudo, Vice President of Toyota, 2013-2016 * Tatsuya Tanaka, President of

Fujitsu is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Tokyo. Fujitsu is the world's sixth-largest IT services provider by annual revenue, and the la ...

, 2015- * Shigeki Tanaka, President of

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Japan, 2016- * Masahiro Inoue, CEO of Yahoo! Japan, 1996-2012 * Shigeru Nakane, CEO of SAP Japan, 1993-1999 * Shiinoki Shigeru, Vice President of

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Japan, 2013-2016 * Zenji Miura, CEO of Ricoh, 2013- * Fumikathu Tokiwa, Kao Corporation Chairman. 1997-2000 *

Shuhei Nakamoto Shuhei Nakamoto (, ''Nakamoto Shūhei''; born 29 April 1957) is the vice-president of Honda Racing Corporation. Career Nakamoto joined the Honda Racing Corporation in 1983 and his initial work was based around the corporation's motorcycle racing o ...

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Vice President,

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representative * Takanobu Satō, President of Shinchosha. 1996-

Academia

Jin Akiyama Jin Akiyama ( ja, 秋山仁; born 1946) is a Japanese mathematician, known for his appearances on Japanese prime-time television (NHK) presenting magic tricks with mathematical explanations. He is director of the Mathematical Education Research ...

, mathematician, professor *

Isamu Shiina is professor of chemistry at Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan. He completed his BSc and MSc at TUS, and he joined the group of Prof. Teruaki Mukaiyama at TUS as an assistant professor in 1992. After receiving his PhD from the University of ...

, professor, discoverer of

2-Methyl-6-nitrobenzoic anhydride 2-Methyl-6-nitrobenzoic anhydride is an organic acid anhydride also known as the Shiina reagent, having a structure wherein carboxylic acids undergo intermolecular dehydration reaction, dehydration condensation. It was developed in 2002 by Isamu S ...

Shiina macrolactonization Shiina macrolactonization (or Shiina lactonization) is an organic chemical reaction that synthesizes cyclic compounds by using aromatic carboxylic acid anhydrides as dehydration condensation agents. In 1994, Prof. Isamu Shiina (Tokyo University of ...

and Shiina esterification * Yasuhiko Kojima, virologist, discoverer of

Interferon Interferons (IFNs, ) are a group of signaling proteins made and released by host cells in response to the presence of several viruses. In a typical scenario, a virus-infected cell will release interferons causing nearby cells to heighten the ...

* Tetsuo Asakura, professor, developer of artificial blood vessels using silk *

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, president of Xinjiang University

Architecture

Kazuo Shinohara was a Japanese architect, forming what is now widely known as the "Shinohara School", which has been linked to the works of Toyo Ito, Kazunari Sakamoto and Itsuko Hasegawa. As architectural critic Thomas Daniell put it, "A key figure who explic ...

, architect, Venice Biennale awarded a special commemorative Golden Lion *

Hideto Horiike was a Japanese architect. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. In 1996, he married the announcer Mikiko Minami, and the couple had a child in the following year. References External links * 1949 births 2015 deaths Japan ...

, architect, Visiting Professor of the University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Media

Tsuyoshi Muro is a Japanese actor who appears on stage and screen. He debuted as an actor in 1999 and has appeared in the "Bayside Shakedown" series, NHK's '' Gochisosan'', and ''Yūsha Yoshihiko''. Filmography Film * ''Hentai Kamen'' (2013) * '' Jossy's'' ( ...

, actor, (attended university but dropped out)

Others

Masayoshi Soken is a Japanese video game composer and sound editor who has worked for Square Enix since 2001. Soken is best known for being the lead composer and sound director of ''Final Fantasy XIV'' and its expansions, as well as the composer for ''Final Fa ...

, sound editor *

Hirokazu Yasuhara (also credited as Carol Yas) is a Japanese video game designer. He is best known for designing the gameplay and stages of the initial '' Sonic the Hedgehog'' video games for Sega Genesis in the 1990s, based on technical demos and engines program ...

, video game designer *

Shigeru Nakanishi is a Japanese artist from Tokyo, Japan.Ryu Ota was a Japanese New Left extremist, author, and ecologist. His name is spelled "Ryu Ohta" as well. Biography He was born Tōichi Kurihara (栗原登一) in Toyohara, Karafuto Prefecture. In October 1945, he joined the Democratic Youth League of ...

(1930–2009), politician *

Fushigi Yamada , better known by her stage name is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with 81 Produce. Yamada is a graduate of Tokyo University of Science. Filmography As Kyoko Yamada * Bikkuriman (Dossuke) * Doraemon (Yamada-kun) * Doraemon: Nobita's ...

(born 1959), voice actress * Hiroshi Sakurazaka, author * Akihiro Murayama, mixed martial artistAkihiro Murayama
tapology. Retrieved April 1, 2017.

References

External links

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