| Meiji University | |
|---|---|
| 明治大学 | |
| Motto | 権利自由、独立自治 (Rights, Liberty, Independence and Self-government) |
| Established | 1881 |
| Type | Private |
| President | Hiromi Naya |
| Location | Chiyoda, Suginami, Kawasaki, Tokyo and Kanagawa, Japan |
| Campus | Urban |
| Mascot | None |
| Website | meiji.ac.jp |
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Meiji University (明治大学 Meiji daigaku) is a private university in Tokyo and Kawasaki, founded in 1881 by three lawyers of the Meiji era, Kishimoto Tatsuo, Miyagi Kōzō, and Yashiro Misao.
The University has eight faculties with total of around 33,000 students on three campuses in Ochanomizu in Chiyoda, Tokyo; the Izumi neighborhood of Suginami-ku, Tokyo; and the Ikuta neighborhood of Tama-ku, Kawasaki.
Meiji University's baseball team belongs to the Tokyo Big Six league. Every year rugby union and baseball matches Sōmeisen (早明戦) against Waseda University attract support among its students.
The university announced on February 26, 2009, that it would open a museum dedicated to anime and manga.[1] It will include international research centers hosting Japanese and international scholars as well as a large quality of artifacts on the subject.
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Organization
Undergraduate schools
- School of Law
- Department of Law
- School of Commerce
- Department of Commerce
- School of Political Science and Economics
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Economics
- Department of Regional Administration
- School of Arts and Letters
- Department of Literature
- Department of History and Geography
- Department of Social Psychology
- School of Science and Technology
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Precision Engineering
- Department of Architecture
- Department of Industrial Chemistry
- Department of Information Science
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Physics
- School of Agriculture
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Agricultural Economics
- Department of Agricultural Chemistry
- Department of Life Sciences
- School of Business Administration
- Department of Business Administration
- Department of Accounting
- Department of Business and Culture
- School of Information and Communication
- Department of Information and Communication
Graduate schools
- Graduate School of Law
- Graduate School of Commerce
- Graduate School of Political Science and Economics
- Graduate School of Business Administration
- Graduate School of Arts and Letters
- Graduate School of Science and Technology
- Graduate School of Agriculture
- Graduate School of Governance Studies
- Graduate School of Global Business
- Graduate School of Professional Accountancy
Law school
- Department of Law
Alumni
Politics
Prime Ministers
- Takeo Miki (1974–1976)
- Tomiichi Murayama (1994–1996)
Other politicians
- Yōsuke Matsuoka
- Hasegawa Nyozekan
- Takashi Sasagawa
- Masayuki Fujio
- Hiromichi Watanabe
- Yoshitaka Sakurada
- Fumiaki Matsumoto
- Yoshitaka Shindo
- Satoshi Takayama
- Shigeo Kitamura
- Yoshio Urushibara
- Koichi Tani
- Masaji Matsuyama
- Masaaki Akaike
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell, US Senator
Others
- Hideki Arai (mangaka)
- Morio Agata (singer)
- Tatsuji Fuse (Korean independence movement custodian)
- Hideo Gosha (film director)
- Masaaki Hatsumi (martial artist, founder of Bujinkan)
- Syu Hiraide (novelist, lawyer)
- Senichi Hoshino (baseball player, manager)
- Toma Ikuta (actor, singer)
- Naoki Inose (political scientist)
- Mao Inoue (actress)
- Sogo Ishii
- Kensuke Isidu (fashion designer)
- Sachio Ito (novelist)
- Kaiji Kawaguchi (mangaka)
- Yuzo Kawashima (film director)
- Kan Kikuchi (novelist)
- Keiko Kitagawa (actress)
- Masaru Kitano (doctor of engineering and TV commentator)
- Takeshi Kitano (film director)[2]
- Daichi Kiyono (actor, rugby player)
- Akira Kobayashi (film actor)
- Yasuo Kobayashi (aikido instructor)
- Masao Koga (composer)
- Keiichiro Koyama (actor, singer (J-pop group NEWS), MC (The Shounen Club))
- Kazufumi Miyazawa (composer, singer)
- Showtaro Morikubo (voice actor, actor, singer)
- Mukai Osamu (actor)
- Toshiyuki Nishida (film actor)
- Kihachi Okamoto (film director)
- Ren Osugi (film actor)
- Toshio Sakai (photographer)
- Kazuhiro Sano (film director and actor)
- Kiyoshi Sasabe (film director)
- Mamoru Sasaki (screenwriter)
- Fusako Shigenobu (activist)
- Tetsuo Shinohara (film director)
- Sohn Kee-chung (marathon runner)
- Yuzo Takada (mangaka)
- Ken Takakura (film actor)
- Noboru Tanaka (film director)
- Eijiro Tono (film actor)
- Naomi Uemura (mountain climber, adventurer)
- Moriteru Ueshiba (Third Aikido Doshu)
- Tatsuro Yamashita (composer, singer)
- Tomohisa Yamashita (actor, singer J-pop group NEWS)
- Yoshihiro Yonezawa
References
- ^ David McNeill, "A Scholarly Home for Manga," Chronicle of Higher Education. ("To continue reading this premium article [beyond the first 2½ sentences], you must have a Chronicle account AND a subscription or an online pass.")
- ^ Awarded an honorary Bachelor of Science in engineering in 2004, 34 years after he dropped out to pursue his career in entertainment.[citation needed]
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