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Tokyo Imperial University
Extracted from the Wikipedia article University of Tokyo.
Founding and early days
The University of Tokyo was chartered on April 12, 1877, by the Meiji government. Corresponding to the fields covered by the predecessor schools, it started with four faculties: Law, Science, Letters, and Medicine. The Imperial College of Engineering later merged into the university as the Faculty of Engineering. In 1886, the university was renamed Imperial University, and it adopted the name Tokyo Imperial University in 1897 after the founding of another imperial university. By 1888, all faculties had completed their relocation to the former site of the Tokyo residence of the Maeda family in Hongo. Among the few extant structures predating this relocation is a gate called Akamon, which has since become a widely recognised symbol of the university.