, commonly referred to as or , is a private research university in Hachioji,

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. The university finds its roots in a school called Igirisu Hōritsu Gakkō (English Law School), which was founded in 1885, and became a university in 1920. The university operates four campuses in Tokyo: the largest in

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(Tama campus), one in

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(Korakuen campus), and two others in

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(Ichigaya and Ichigaya-Tamachi campuses). Chuo is organized into six

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, ten

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s, and nine research institutes. There are also four affiliated

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s and two affiliated

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s. When written in

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, Chuo University shares the same name with

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and

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History

Early days: 1885–1920

Chuo was founded as the in 1885 at

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in Tokyo by Rokuichiro Masujima together with some group of 18 young lawyers led by him. Before 1889, the school moved and was renamed to Tokyo College of Law (Tōkyō Hōgakuin). The curriculum was changed to reflect the government reform of Japanese law and creation of a new

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. Opposition to the implementation of new civil code resulted in the government shuttering of the campus journal and the subsequent creation of the ''Chuo

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'' (Hōgaku Shinpō), which has been regularly published since then. The university was burnt down in the

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that occurred in 1892, but was able to hold temporary classes. Before 1903, the school was promoted to Tokyo University of Law (Tokyo Hōgakuin Daigaku) and in 1905, the school expanded itself with the department of economics and renamed itself Chuo University. The origin of its name "Chuo" has not been certain. However, many founders of the university were once students of the

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, London, United Kingdom before they completed their training and became qualified as

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. This is one of the reasons why the university was renamed to "Chuo", which literally means middle, center or central. Another fire damaged the campus in June 1917, but it was rebuilt in August 1918.

Under the old University Ordinance: 1920–1949

In 1918, Japanese government enacted University Ordinance (Daigaku Rei) that set legal framework of universities except imperial universities established by Imperial University Ordinance. Under this University Ordinance, licensed universities were permitted to issue official degrees. Chuo University was successfully licensed in 1920 with three faculties (law, economics and commerce), graduate schools and preparatory schools. The

1923 Great Kantō earthquake The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake (, or ) was a major earthquake that struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshu at 11:58:32 JST (02:58:32 UTC) on Saturday, 1 September 1923. It had an approximate magnitude of 8.0 on the mom ...

again reduced the campus to rubble and it was rebuilt and relocated at Kanda-Surugadai in 1926. In 1944, Engineering College was established.

Reform along with new School Education Act: 1949–1978

After World War II, Chuo University started a series of reformations along with a new School Education Act of 1947. In 1948, its Correspondence Division was annexed to its Faculty of Law. In 1949, a new university system under the School Education Act of 1947 was applied to Chuo University. Its Engineering College was abolished and new Faculty of Engineering was opened in this year. Its Faculty of Literature was established in 1951.Its Faculty of Engineering took wings and was renamed to Faculty of Science and Engineering in 1962.

Contemporary

In 1978, Chuo University's headquarters, four faculties and graduate schools including laws, economics, commerce and arts moved to newly established Tama Campus in Hachiōji from the Kanda-Surugadai Campus. The Faculty of Science and Engineering and its Graduate School are still located at the Korakuen Campus. For celebrating its 100th anniversary, in 1988, Chuo University built the Surugadai Memorial Hall which is a seven-story building. It is located at a section on the old Kanda-Surugadai Campus. In 1993, the Faculty of Policy Studies was opened on the Tama Campus. The Ichigaya Campus was built in 2000 originally as a satellite downtown campus for graduate schools, but, in 2002, a new professional graduate school, Chuo Graduate School of International Accounting and in 2004, another professional graduate school, Chuo Law School were established at the same campus, and then, the satellite downtown campus function for graduate schools partially moved to Ichigaya-Tamachi Campus after it was established in 2010. In 2008, Chuo Graduate School of Strategic Management, which is a professional graduate school, was launched at Korakuen Campus. Faculty of Literature was renamed to Faculty of Letters. The Ichigaya-Tamachi Campus in Shinjuku was opened in 2010. The Graduate Schools of International Accounting and Public Policy have moved to this campus. In 2010, Chuo University celebrated its 125th anniversary and the other university events including the main ceremony were held on November 13.

Faculties and graduate schools

Faculties

*Faculty of Law *Faculty of Economics *Faculty of Commerce *Faculty of Science and Engineering *Faculty of Letters *Faculty of Policy Studies *Faculty of Global Management (GLOMAC) *Faculty of Global Informatics (iTL) *Faculty of Law Correspondence Course

Graduate schools

*Graduate School of Law *Graduate School of Economics *Graduate School of Commerce *Graduate School of Science and Engineering *Graduate School of Letters *Graduate School of Policy Studies *Graduate School of Global Informatics

Professional graduate schools

*Chuo Law School *Chuo Graduate School of Strategic Management

Campuses

Myogadani campus

Campus for Faculty of Law and Graduate School of Research of Law affairs. This campus opened in April 2023, the two newest campuses (Myogadani campus, Surugadai campus) and fragship campus of Chuo University. Traffic：Tokyo Metro Marunouchi line, Myogadani Station(M-23). From station exit No.1 to Myogadani campus is 1min. (via Kasuga-dori Avenue)

Tama campus

This, the main campus, is a short walk from the

Chūō-Daigaku-Meisei-Daigaku Station is a station on the Tama Toshi Monorail Line in Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan. Lines Chūō-Daigaku-Meisei-Daigaku Station is a station on the Tama Toshi Monorail Line and is located 13.4 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kamikitadai St ...

of the Tama Monorail, easily reachable from the JR Chūō,

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or Odakyū line. It houses headquarters, all the undergraduate faculties except for the Faculty of Science and Engineering, five graduate schools including law, economics, commerce, arts and policy studies.

Korakuen campus

It can be reached from Kasuga Station ( Ōedo and Mita subway lines),

Kōrakuen Station is a subway train station in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the Tokyo subway operator Tokyo Metro. It is directly connected by an underground pedestrian passage to the Toei-operated Kasuga Station. It is integrated with the Tokyo Dome C ...

(

Marunouchi Marunouchi () is an area in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, located between Tokyo Station and the Kokyo, Imperial Palace. The name, meaning "inside the circle", derives from its location within the palace's outer moat. Marunouchi is the core ...

and Namboku subway lines), and

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( JR

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). It houses the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the corresponding graduate school, and the Graduate School of Strategic Management (professional graduate school).

Ichigaya campus

This is in

ward, Tokyo. It can be reached from Akebonobashi Station ( Shinjuku subway line),

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( Marunouchi subway line), and

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( JR

, and

, Namboku, and

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subway lines). It contains the Chuo Law School (professional graduate school).

Ichigaya-Tamachi campus

This too is in

ward, Tokyo. It is near

( JR

, Namboku, and

subway lines). It contains the Chuo Graduate School of International Accounting (professional graduate school) and the Graduate School of Public Policy. It is also a downtown satellite campus for graduate schools.

Surugadai Memorial Hall

This is in Chiyoda ward, Tokyo. It can be reached from

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( JR

and Marunouchi subway line).

Academic activities

Research institutions

Chuo has eight research institutions and one research based educational institution.

Institute of Comparative Law in Japan

It was established as the first research institute for comparative legal studies in Japan and East Asia. Its academic research journal ''Hikakuhō Zasshi'' is one of the most prestigious academic journals in this field. Its office and library are on Tama Campus.

Institute of Economic Research

It was established in 1964. Its research covers microeconomics, macroeconomics and Marxian economics.

Institute of Social Sciences

It was established in 1979. Its research covers a wide range of social sciences including politics, applied policy studies, area studies and modern histories.

Institute of Business Research

The Japanese name of this institute is "Kigyō Kenkyūjo", literally ''Institute for Business Entity Analysis''. It was established in 1979. It is very famous for its large collection of material on Japanese corporations or business entities.

Institute of Cultural Science

The Japanese name of this institute is "Jinbun-kagaku Kenkyūjo", literally ''Institute of Humanities''. The research undertaken by the institute is primarily collaborative, and involves study of cultural sciences in their broadest sense.

Institute of Health and Sports Science

It was established in 1978. Its main office and laboratories are in the main Gymnastic Building on Tama Campus.

Institute of Science and Engineering

The institute, established in 1992, promotes joint and project research in science and technology. Its office is on Korakuen Campus.

Institute of Policy and Cultural Studies

The institute was established in 1996 for promoting applied research in policy studies.

Institute of Accounting Research

This institute was founded in 1948, for researching practice and theory of corporate accounting, tax, and legislation and/or regulation on business entities. In 1979, Chuo decided to separate it into two. A new Institute of Business Research succeeded research functions and the Institute of Accounting Research changed its function into research-based education in accounting. The institute offers various courses for students who would like to be qualified as CPA or tax accountant, or to become business professionals empowered by the knowledge of accounting.

21st Century Center of Excellence

"21st Century Center of Excellence" (COE) program is the Japanese government's special support program for establishing top research centers within research universities. Chuo had this support from 2002 to 2006 for its "Research on Security and Reliability in Electronic Society". Combining cryptographic technologies and other social engineering methods including legal studies, Chuo contributed to society on this matter.

International Residence and Library

In 2011, as a part of the university's promotional efforts for internalization, Chuo opened an international residence in

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to provide new and already-enrolled students with 64 private rooms and communal living spaces where students can communicate with fellow students and develop international perspectives. In 2012, an additional international exchange residence with 94 all-in-one private rooms was opened to further the internationalization efforts. Chuo also boast a rich history spanning over 125 years. The university is equipped with an immense library with about 2.1 million volumes in its collection.

Notable alumni

Athletes

Shozo Sasahara was a Japanese freestyle wrestler who won a world title in 1954 and an Olympics gold medal in 1956. He was the flag bearer for Japan at the 1956 Games. During his career Sasahara won approximately 200 bouts. After retiring from competitions h ...

(wrestling, Olympic gold medallist) * Takao Sakurai (boxing, Olympic gold medallist) *

Isao Okano is a retired judoka who competed in the middleweight division (80 kg) in the 1964 Summer Olympics. Biography Okano entered the 1964 Summer Olympics while studying at Chuo University's law school, and won the gold medal in the middleweigh ...

(judo, Olympic gold medallist) *

Terry Farnsworth Terry Farnsworth (born 27 August 1942) is a Canadian former Olympic judoka. Born in Portland, Maine, he represented Canada in international judo competitions. He won the Canadian under-93 kg national championship in both 1972 and 1973, and compe ...

(born 1942) (judo, Canadian Olympian) *

Kōkichi Tsuburaya (born ; May 13, 1940 – January 9, 1968) was a Japanese athlete who competed mainly as a marathoner. Kokichi was also a 1st lieutenant in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. Running career Tsuburaya competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics held ...

(athletics, Olympic bronze medallist) * Kohei Murakoso (athletics,

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) *

Hiromori Kawashima Hiromori Kawashima (February 2, 1922 – December 9, 2012) was a Japanese police officer and executive who served as the Commissioner of Baseball in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1998 to 2004. He is a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of ...

(former commissioner of

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) * Yutaka Takagi (baseball) *

Shinnosuke Abe is a Japanese former professional baseball player and current manager, who spent his entire 19-year career with Nippon Professional Baseball's Yomiuri Giants, serving as the team's captain from 2007 to 2014. He has twice been named the MVP of th ...

(baseball) *

Yoshiyuki Kamei (baseball) is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He was selected Japan national baseball team at the 2009 World Baseball Classic. During a brief stint in the 2010–11 Australian Baseb ...

* Yoshio Anabuki (baseball, former Manager of

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) * Hirokazu Sawamura (baseball,

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and

Chiba Lotte Marines The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based in Chiba, Chiba, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, in the Kantō region, and owned by Lotte Holdings, Lotte Holdings Co., Ltd. The Marines were a founding member of the Pacific Le ...

) *

Tsuyoshi Fukui is a retired tour and Japan Davis Cup team tennis player. Fukui holds the record for the most singles win for the Japanese in Davis Cup, with 26. On tour, he won two Challenger tennis events in singles and earned a career-high singles rankin ...

(tennis / Managing Director,

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) *

Dejima Takeharu Dejima Takeharu (出島武春, born March 21, 1974) is a former sumo wrestler from Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. A former amateur champion, he made his professional debut in 1996, reaching the top ''makuuchi'' division the following year. In Ju ...

(

sumo is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a ''rikishi'' (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (''dohyō'') or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by th ...

, former '' ōzeki'') * Takekaze Akira (sumo, former ''

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'') *

Tamakasuga Ryōji Tamakasuga Ryōji (born January 7, 1972, as Ryōji Matsumoto) is a former sumo wrestler from Seiyo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. A former amateur sumo champion, he made his professional debut in 1994 and reached a highest rank of '' sekiwake'' in 199 ...

(sumo) * Mai Nakamura (swimmer, Olympic silver medallist) *

Masami Tanaka is a former breaststroke swimmer from Japan. She won the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m Medley Relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city ...

(swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist) * Sumika Minamoto (swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist) * Masahiro Fukuda (football player) *

Nobutoshi Kaneda is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. Club career Kaneda was born in Fuchu, Hiroshima on February 16, 1958. After graduating from Chuo University, he joined Nissan Motors in 1980. The club won the 1983 and ...

(football player) *

Kengo Nakamura is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. A one-club man, Nakamura signed with Kawasaki Frontale in 2003 and helped the then J2 outfit earn promotion back to the top flight in 2004, and became a fixture in the a ...

(football player) *

Ken Naganuma was a Japanese football player and manager. A forward, he earned four caps for the Japan national team between 1954 and 1961 and later also served as the team's manager. He was also the president of the Japan Football Association from 1994 to ...

(football player, former President of the

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) * Kyogo Furuhashi (football player) *

Katsuaki Satō is the founder and director of Satojuku Karate, also known as Odo (The Champion's Way) karate. The Satojuku '' honbu'' (headquarters) is located in Tachikawa, Japan. Satō was born on April 4, 1946, on Sakhalin Island, then part of occupied Jap ...

(karate) *

Jumbo Tsuruta , better known by his ring name , was a Japanese professional wrestler who wrestled for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) for most of his career, and is well known for being the first ever Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion, having won the PWF Heavy ...

(wrestling) *

Kazushi Sakuraba is a Japanese professional wrestler, submission wrestling, submission wrestler and former mixed martial artist, currently signed to Pro Wrestling NOAH, Pro Wrestling Noah, where he was formerly one-half of the former GHC Tag Team Championship, G ...

(wrestling) * Yuki Ishikawa (volleyball player) *

Tatsuya Fukuzawa Tatsuya Fukuzawa (福澤達哉 ''Fukuzawa Tatsuya'', born July 1, 1986) is a retired Japanese volleyball player who played for Japan men's national volleyball team. He announced his retirement on July 14, 2021 and competed in the retirement m ...

(volleyball player) * Masahiro Sekita (volleyball player) * Issei Otake (volleyball player) * Mariko Yamamoto (cricketer, Olympic bronze medallist)

Lawyers

* Chiharu Saiguchi (former Justice, the Supreme Court) *

Tatsuo Kainaka became an attorney at law after serving as a member of the Supreme Court of Japan The , located in Hayabusachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, is the highest court in Japan. It has ultimate judicial authority to interpret the Japanese constitution and dec ...

(former Justice, the Supreme Court / Superintending Prosecutor, Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office)

Politicians

Toshiki Kaifu was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991. Born in Nagoya, Kaifu graduated from Waseda University and was first elected to the Diet in 1960 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He served as educ ...

(Prime Minister / former chairman,

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) *

Masahiko Kōmura is a Japanese politician who served as Vice President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2012 to 2018. He served in several cabinet position, including as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2007 to 2008. He was a ...

(Minister for Foreign Affairs) *

Okiharu Yasuoka was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kagoshima Prefecture and graduate of Chuo University, he was elected to the House of Repr ...

(Minister of Justice) *

Toshihiro Nikai is a former Japanese politician for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the leader of the LDP Shisuikai faction (informally called the Nikai faction), who served as the Secretary-General of the LDP from 2016 to 2021. He was previously the ...

(Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) * Hirofumi Hirano (Chief Cabinet Secretary, the House of Representatives) * Yonezo Maeda (former Seiyukai leader / former Minister of Railways / lawyer) *

Yoshimi Watanabe is a former Japanese politician. He was formerly a member of the Liberal Democratic Party and later the founder of Your Party, after which he became a member of Nippon Ishin no Kai until 2019 when he then became an independent politician. He wa ...

(former Minister, State for Financial Policy and Administrative Reform) *

Ichita Yamamoto is a Japanese politician who has been the governor of Gunma Prefecture since July 2019. He was a neoconservative member of the House of Councillors in Japan. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, he served as the Minister of State for Oki ...

(House of Councilors member) *

Hideo Usui is a retired Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, who served as a member of the House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entities. In many count ...

(former Minister of Justice) *

Masaaki Kanda is a Japanese politician who served as governor of Aichi Prefecture in 1999–2011. A graduate of Chuo University, he served as mayor of Ichinomiya is a Japanese language, Japanese historical term referring to the Shinto shrines with the hig ...

(Governor,

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Prefecture) *

Fumio Ueda is the former mayor of Sapporo, capital city of Hokkaido, Japan. Ueda was born in Makubetsu, Hokkaido, and graduated from the law department of Chuo University in 1972. He became an attorney and opened a law practice in 1978. At various times h ...

(Mayor,

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city / lawyer) * Yorikane Masumoto (former Mayor,

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city) *

Hwang Jang-yop Hwang Jang-yop (; 17 February 192310 October 2010) was a North Korean politician who defected to South Korea. He served as the Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly from 1972 to 1983 and was largely responsible for crafting ''Juche'', the ...

(North Korean defector; dropped out of the law school in 1944. Was previously

Kim Il-Sung Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he led as its first supreme leader from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. Afterwards, he was ...

's and

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's personal advisor.) * Hiroshi Saitō (mayor of Tokorozawa, Saitama)

Journalists, intellectuals

Hasegawa Nyozekan Hasegawa Manjirō (長谷川萬次郎, né Yamamoto, November 30, 1875 – November 11, 1969), known by his pen name , was a Japanese social critic and journalist during the Taishō and Shōwa eras. He was one of the most important and widely ...

Academics

* Hachiro Sugimoto (Medicinal chemist, Ph.D. / Visiting professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences,

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) * Tadahiko Fukuhara, (President of Chuo University 2011) *

Kenzo Kitakata is a Japanese novelist, especially known for his hardboiled novels. He studied law at Chuo University in the early 1970s. He served as the 10th President of the Mystery Writers of Japan from 1997 to 2001. Works in English translation ;Hardboile ...

* Yoshie Wada (

Naoki Prize The Naoki Prize, officially , is a Japanese literary award presented biannually. It was created in 1935 by Kikuchi Kan, then editor of the ''Bungeishunjū'' magazine, and named in memory of novelist Naoki Sanjugo. Sponsored by the Society for ...

) * Kazumasa Hirai *

Kazuo Koike was a prolific Japanese manga writer ( gensakusha), novelist, screenwriter, lyricist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his violent, artful ''seinen'' manga, notably ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' (with Goseki Kojima, 1970–6), '' Lady Snowblood'' ...

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/ former chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chuo University) * Osamu Suzuki (Chairman & CEO, Suzuki Motor) *

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) * Isao Kataoka, Japan Ice Hockey Federation executive * Satoshi Takano (

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) * Hiroaki Yokoyama (

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References

External links

Chuo University's website

Chuo University's official homepage in English
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