Osaka University
Motto	地域に生き世界に伸びる (Live locally, grow globally)
Established	Founded Nov. 1869, Chartered Nov. 22, 1919
School type	Public
President	Hideo Miyahara
Location	Suita, Osaka, Japan
Campus	Suburban / Urban, 357 acres (1.4 km²)
Enrollment	12,229 undergraduate, 7,702 graduate 1,029 international
Faculty	1,540 full-time
Mascot	"Macchi" the Crocodile (unofficial)
Endowment	US$2.3 billion (JP¥264.3 billion)
Website	www.osaka-u.ac.jp

Osaka University (大阪大学 Ōsaka Daigaku; abbreviated to 阪大 Handai) is a public coeducational research university in Suita, Osaka, Japan. It is the sixth-oldest university, as the Prefectural Osaka Medical College, in Japan. Image File history File links This work is copyrighted. ... For other uses, see November (disambiguation). ... 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The term public school has different meanings: In Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and most other English-speaking nations, a public school is a school which is financed and run by the government and does not charge tuition fees. ... Tower of the Sun in Expo 70 Memorial Park JR Suita Station Suita (吹田市; -shi) is a city located in northern Osaka Prefecture, Japan. ... Osaka Castle Location in Japan Osaka Aquarium (Kaiyukan) Osaka railway station View from Osaka Castle. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... Urban area is a term used to define an area where there is an increased density of man-made structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... In some educational systems, an undergraduate is a post-secondary student pursuing a Bachelors degree. ... The word billion and its equivalents in other languages refer to one of two different numbers, depending on whether the writer is using the long or short scale. ... The word billion and its equivalents in other languages refer to one of two different numbers, depending on whether the writer is using the long or short scale. ... Public is of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to private; as, the public treasury, a road or lake. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... // History Because of the above definition, the oldest universities in the world were all European, as the awarding of academic degrees was not a custom of older institutions of learning in Asia and Africa. ... Tower of the Sun in Expo 70 Memorial Park JR Suita Station Suita (吹田市; -shi) is a city located in northern Osaka Prefecture, Japan. ... Osaka Castle Location in Japan Osaka Aquarium (Kaiyukan) Osaka railway station View from Osaka Castle. ...

Campus

History

Osaka University traces its beginnings to Osaka Prefecture Medical School founded in 1869 in downtown Osaka, and then, it transformed into the Prefectural Osaka Medical College with a university status in 1919. In 1931, the medical college, with a faculty of science, became a part of Osaka Imperial University, which was established as the sixth Imperial University in Japan. Osaka Technical College was absorbed as the College of Engineering in 1933. The university was renamed as Osaka University in 1947. 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Osaka Castle (ÅŒsaka-jō) Location in Japan Osaka Aquarium (Kaiyukan) Osaka railway station The Osaka Tower (TsÅ«tenkaku) Osaka City   listen? (大阪市; ÅŒsaka-shi) is the third-largest city in Japan, with a population of 2. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 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. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1949, merging Naniwa Higher School and Osaka Higher School, Osaka University started its postwar career with five faculties: science, medicine, engineering, letters and law. The academic origins of the university traces back to Kaitokudo, the Edo-period school for citizens, founded in 1724, and Tekijuku, the school of Rangaku, founded by Ogata Koan in 1838. It is believed that the spirit of the university's humanities faculties stemmed from Kaitokudo, while that of the science faculties, including medicine, came from Tekijuku. 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Edo (Japanese: 江戸, literally: bay-door, estuary), once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of the Japanese capital Tokyo. ... Events January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. ... 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). ... 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Organization

Faculty

Students

Sports, clubs, and traditions

List of Undegraduate Programms

• School of Letters
• School of Human Sciences
• School of Law
• School of Economics
• School of Science
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Dentistry
• School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• School of Engineering
• School of Engineering Science

List of alumni

• Manga author Osamu Tezuka（School of Medicine）
• Finance Minister of Japan, Economist Heizo Takenaka（Graduate School of Economics）
• Sony founder Akio Morita（School of Science）
• Nobel Prize in Physics Hideki Yukawa（Graduate School of Science）
• Physicist Hantaro Nagaoka（First President of Osaka University）
• Koushun Takami, the author of the novel Battle Royale.

Mangaka (漫画家) is the Japanese word for a comic artist. ... Osamu Tezuka and his creations commemorated on two stamps Dr. Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫 Tezuka Osamu, November 3, 1928 - February 9, 1989) was a Japanese manga artist and animator born in Ōsaka. ... An economist is someone who studies Economics. ... Heizo Takenaka (b. ... Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (TYO: 6758 , NYSE: SNE) is a global Japanese consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. ... Akio Morita (盛田昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921 in Nagoya, Japan - October 3, 1999 in Tokyo) was a co-founder of Sony Corporation. ... A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ... Hideki Yukawa Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹, January 23, 1907 - September 8, 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese person to win the Nobel prize. ... A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ... Hantaro Nagaoka (長岡半太郎 Nagaoka Hantarō) (1865 – December 11, 1950) was a Japanese physicist and a pioneer of Japanese physics in the early Meiji period. ... ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... It has been suggested that Kazuo kiriyama be merged into this article or section. ...

Newspaper

Handai Walker(in Japanese)

External links

• Osaka University