Tokyo Institute of Technology

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name = Tokyo Institute of Technology
native_name = 東京工業大学


motto = None
established = 1881
type = Public (National)
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city = Meguro
state = Tokyo (headquarters)
country = Japan
undergrad = 4940
postgrad = 5096
faculty = 1141
campus = Urban
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website = http://www.titech.ac.jp/

nihongo|Tokyo Institute of Technology|東京工業大学|Tōkyō Kōgyō Daigaku, often called Tokyo Tech, TiTech or nihongo|"Tokodai"|東工大|Tōkōdai for short, is the largest institution of higher learning in Japan dedicated to science and technology.

Tokyo Institute of Technology was founded as the Tokyo Vocational School on May 26, 1881, 14 years after the Meiji Restoration. To accomplish the quick catch-up to the West, Meiji government expected this school of the cultivating of new modernized craftmen or engineers. In early days, the school located in Kuramae, eastern area of Tokyo, where many craftmen's workshops were since the old Shogun's era. But its campus was ruined by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. In 1929, moved to Ookayama, a south suburb of Tokyo, it was elevated to the status of national university. After the World War II, the new educational system was promulgated in 1949 and Tokyo Institute of Technology was reorganized. Throughout the post-war reconstruction of 1950's, high economic growth era of 1960's, and the agressive economic animal's era marching to the Bubble Economy of 1980's, it kept providing the Japan's leading engineers, researchers, business persons. Since April 2004, it has been semi-privatized into the National University Incorporation of Tokyo Institute of Technology under a new law [http://www.mext.go.jp/english/news/2003/07/03120301.htm] which applies to all national universities.

The institute has three campuses, the Ookayama campus in Ookayama, Meguro being the main campus. The other two campuses are the Tamachi campus, located in Shibaura, Minato and the Suzukakedai campus, located in Nagatsuta-cho, Midori, Yokohama.

The university is a member of LAOTSE, an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia exchanging students and senior scholars.

chools and laboratories

Undergraduate schools

*School of Science
*School of Engineering
*School of Bioscience and Biotechnology

Graduate schools

*Graduate School of Science and Engineering
*Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
*Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering
*Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering
*Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology
*Graduate School of Innovation Management

Research laboratories

*Chemical Resources Laboratory
*Precision and Intelligence Laboratory
*Materials and Structures Laboratory
*Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors
* [Quantum Nano Electronics Research Center] [http://www.pe.titech.ac.jp/qnerc/index.shtml]

Notable alumni

*Toshio Dokou
*Shoji Hamada
*Shigeo Hirose - pioneer of Robotics technology
*Toshio Ikeda
*Satoru Iwata - CEO of Nintendo
*Naoto Kan - Politician
*Kanjiro Kawai
*Akitoshi Kawazu
*Kenichi Ohmae - leading business and corporate strategists
*Kinsuke Serizawa
*Hideki Shirakawa - Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 2000)
*Saburō Tanaka - founder of "Kinema Junpo", the oldest film magazine in Japan
*Mohammad Khatami - former president of Iran
*Rokusuke Hori - inventor of pahntyhose. founder of Atsugi Co.Ltd.
*Yogoro Kato - co-inventor of ferrite magnet. Professor emeritus.
*Takeshi Takei - co-inventor of ferrite magnet. Professor emeritus.
*Kikuo Harigaya - nanotechnology research

External links

* [http://www.titech.ac.jp/ The official TiTech web site]