Kikuchi Dairoku as a professor at Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo)

Kikuchi Dairoku (菊池大麓 Kikuchi Dairoku, March 17, 1855 - August 19, 1917) was born in Edo, the second son of Mitsukuri Shuhei. Kikuchi Dairoku from http://kyokan. ... Kikuchi Dairoku from http://kyokan. ... The University of Tokyo (東京大学; Tōkyō Daigaku, abbreviated as 東大 Tōdai) is generally ranked as Japans most prestigious university. ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Edo (Japanese: 江戸, literally: bay-door, estuary), once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of the Japanese capital Tokyo. ...

Kikuchi was the first ever Japanese student to graduate from Cambridge University (St. John's College) and the only one to graduate from London University in the 19th century. He first came to Britain in 1866 aged 11, the youngest of a group of Japanese sent by the Tokugawa shogunate (Bakufu) which was enrolled at University College School on the advice of the then British foreign minister Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby. REDIRECT [1] ... Full name The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge Motto - Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist, Cambridge, named after John the Evangelist Previous names - Established 1511 Sister College Balliol College Master Prof. ... Senate House, designed by Charles Holden home to the universitys central administration offices and its library The University of London, founded in 1836, is a federation of colleges which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ... The Tokugawa shogunate or Tokugawa bakufu (徳川幕府) (also known as the Edo bakufu) was a feudal military dictatorship of Japan established in 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family until 1868. ... University College School entrance, Frognal, Hampstead University College School, known generally as UCS, is a leading Independent boys school situated in Hampstead in Northwest London. ... The Rt Hon. ...

Kikuchi later became a President of Tokyo Imperial University, Minister of Education and President of Kyoto Imperial University. He was made a baron in 1902, and was the first President of the Science Research Institute of Japan (Rikagakukenkyusho or RIKEN, equivalent of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University) before his death in 1917. The University of Tokyo (東京大学; Tōkyō Daigaku, abbreviated as 東大 Tōdai) is generally ranked as Japans most prestigious university. ... Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan (京都大学 Kyōto Daigaku; abbreviated to 京大 Kyōdai) is the second oldest university of Japan and one of leading national universities having a total of roughly 22,000 students. ... The kazoku (華族, lit. ... RIKEN is the largest research institute for natural sciences in Japan. ... The Cavendish Laboratory is Cambridge Universitys Department of Physics, and is part of the universitys School of Physical Sciences. ...

Kikuchi was a member of Japan's most distinguished family of scholars, the Mitsukuri family, and at the centre of Japan's educational system in the Meiji Era. His grandfather had been a student of Dutch studies (Rangaku). His father had taught at the Bansho-shirabesho (Institute for investigating Barbarian books). His children were famous scientists. History of Japan Paleolithic Jomon Yayoi Yamato period ---Kofun period ---Asuka period Nara period Heian period Kamakura period Muromachi period Azuchi-Momoyama period ---Nanban period Edo period Meiji period Taisho period Showa period ---Japanese expansionism ---Occupied Japan ---Post-Occupation Japan Heisei The Meiji period (Japanese: Meiji Jidai 明治時代 ) (1868–1912... Rangaku (蘭学) or Dutch Learning was the method by which Japan kept abreast of Western technology and medicine in the period when the country was closed to foreigners, 1641-1853, because of the Tokugawa shogunates policy of national isolation (sakoku). ...

See also

• Hayashi Tadasu
• Inagaki Manjiro
• Okura Kishichiro
• Suematsu Kencho

• Imperial University
• Donald MacAlister
• Karl Pearson - a close friend and contemporary of Kikuchi at University College School and Cambridge University
• Cambridge University
• Anglo-Japanese relations

Count Hayashi Tadasu (1850-1913) studied in England with Kikuchi Dairoku at University College School, 1866-68, being one of fourteen young Japanese sent by the Tokugawa shogunate. ... Inagaki Manjiro from Nagasaki Ken Jibutsu Den Inagaki Manjiro (稲垣 満次郎 Inagaki Manjirō; born 1861; died 1908) was a Japanese diplomat. ... Baron Kishichiro Okura (1882-1963, 大倉喜七郎 Okura Kishichiro in Japanese) studied at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1903 to 1906 but he did not manage to graduate from Cambridge University. ... Categories: Japanese authors | Japanese historians | Japanese statesmen | Japan-related stubs ... Nine Imperial Universities (帝國大學 teikoku daigaku) were founded and run by the Imperial Japanese government between 1877 and 1939, seven in Japan, one in Korea and one in Taiwan. ... Young Donald MacAlister - Senior Wrangler at Cambridge in 1877 Sir Donald MacAlister of Tarbert (1854-1934) physician, principal and vice-chancellor and, later, chancellor of the university of Glasgow Donald MacAlister was born in Perth, Scotland. ... Karl Pearson (March 27, 1857 – April 27, 1936) was a major contributor to the early development of statistics as a serious scientific discipline in its own right. ... University College School entrance, Frognal, Hampstead University College School, known generally as UCS, is a leading Independent boys school situated in Hampstead in Northwest London. ... REDIRECT [1] ... REDIRECT [1] ... Chronology of Anglo-Japanese relations (Nichi-Ei kankei 日英関係) 1600. ...

External Links

• Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan, by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton [1], (Lulu Press, September 2004, ISBN 1411612566). Kikuchi is the central figure in this book.

• 'Kikuchi Dairoku, 1855-1917: Educational Administrator and Pioneer of Modern Mathematical Education in Japan,' by Noboru Koyama, Chapter 7, Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits Volume 5, Global Oriental 2005, ISBN 1901903486

• Portrait of Kikuchi Dairoku on the National Diet Library database, Tokyo

• RIKEN - The Science Research Institute of Japan