Hitotsubashi University
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| Motto | None |
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| Established | 1875 |
| Type | Public (National) |
| President | Takehiko Sugiyama |
| Faculty | 600 |
| Undergraduates | 4,600 |
| Postgraduates | 2,000 |
| Location | Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan |
| Campus | Urban |
| Mascot | None |
| Website | http://hit-u.ac.jp/ |
Hitotsubashi University (一橋大学 Hitotsubashi daigaku?) is a national university in Tokyo, Japan. The University has campuses in Kunitachi, Kodaira and Kanda.
Hitotsubashi University is one of the most renown Japanese universities for social sciences, in particular commerce, economics and sociology. It has produced many alumni who went on to play active roles in the finance and industrial sectors. In addition, the university has many capable professors for social sciences, and is counted as the top 3rd university in the field of humanities and social sciences.
It has, moreover, strong relationships with universities overseas. The students in Hitotsubashi University are able to make use of the exchange student system. Thanks to the high quality of its students and professors, Hitotsubashi University is regarded as one of the top universities.
Hitotsubashi University is the first Japanese founded school, at the time it was called the lecture school of commerce and law. It was founded by Mori Arinori. There were talks about having it merge with University of Tokyo, but the alumni and students objected the merger; hence the merger was not fulfilled. This case is called Rouzyou episode. In the commercial education system in Japan, Hitotsubasi University is the top university.
The symbol of the Hitotsubashi university is inspired by Mercury, Greek mythology's god of commerce.
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[edit] Faculties and Graduate Schools
[edit] Faculties
- Commerce
- Economics
- Law
- Social Sciences
[edit] Graduate Schools
- Commerce
- Economics
- Law
- Social Sciences
- Language and Society
- International Corporate Strategy
- International and Public Policy
[edit] Research Institutes and Centers
- Institute of Economic Research
- Research Center for Information and Statistics of Social Science
- Research and Development Center for Higher Education
- Computer Center
- Center for Student Exchange
- International Joint Research Center
- Institute of Innovation Research
- Center for Historical Social Science Literature
[edit] Famous alumni
- Masayoshi Ohira - 68th and 69th Prime Minister of Japan
- Shintaro Ishihara - Author, current governor of Tokyo
- Yasuo Tanaka - Author, current governor of Nagano Prefecture
- Heizo Takenaka - Economist, current Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy of Japan.
- Hiroshi Okuda - ex Chairman of Toyota and Chairman of the prestigious Nihon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation)
- Masaru Hayami - Governor of the Bank of Japan
- Fukuda Tokuzo - Economist
- Wataru Yoshizumi -manga artist
- Ken Ishii - musician
- Itô Sei - translator and novelist
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