I. Historical development and changes
The University of Tokyo was founded in April 1877, which was an era of frequent civil wars in early modern times. Its predecessor is Tokyo Kaicheng School and Tokyo Medical College-two major research and education institutions since the Edo era. Law? Neo-Confucianism? The Third Department of Literature was established in Tokyo, and the Department of Medicine was reorganized from Tokyo Medical School. Furthermore, it can be traced back to the "Astronomical Party" of the Lan Xue Institution, the Sakamoto Institute and the Inoculation Institute in Changping established during the shogunate period. At the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese government announced the "New Academic System Order", 1877, and according to the instructions of the Ministry of Education, the two universities were merged and named the University of Tokyo. At that time, there was a certain scale, with more than 500 students and four departments of literature, law, science and medicine. Soon, the Tokyo Law School, which was also managed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, was merged into the school, which was under the Ministry of Justice.
1886, the imperial university decree was promulgated, and the university of Tokyo was renamed imperial university, adopting the university division system. The former engineering university under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry and the agricultural university formed by the merger of Tokyo Agriculture and Forestry School and Linshan School under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture have successively become the engineering university and agricultural university of Imperial University, and the former departments have been changed to Hosei University, Medical University, Liberal Arts University and Science University respectively. And began to set up graduate schools. Become a veritable university.
1887 After ranking the degrees, doctors and doctoral degrees were added. During this period, Imperial University was given a local name. In order to show the difference, the word "Tokyo" was added to the name of Imperial University, making it a model of the university. At this time, the school system has also changed. In order to facilitate unified leadership, the university system was changed to the department system, and the law department was added with the business department. Ten years later, the department was expanded and upgraded to the Department of Economics. In the decades before the war, Imperial University of Tokyo made great progress in all aspects and trained tens of thousands of graduates, including many national leaders.
After World War II, the word "Imperial" in "Imperial University of Tokyo" was removed and the name of the earliest Tokyo University was restored. After the reorganization, the University of Tokyo established a new basic department and a new education department, and merged the affiliated medical department, the First University and the Neusoft Preparatory Festival. The original department has also been divided into new departments, and a large number of research institutes and research centers have been established one after another. Today, the University of Tokyo has become a comprehensive university with ten departments, eleven graduate schools, twelve research institutes and tens of thousands of teachers and students. During the period of 1986, when the presidents and administrators of some Asian universities voted for ten world-famous universities, the University of Tokyo was the only representative in Asia.
Second, cultural traditions.
The University of Tokyo has no official so-called "school emblem". The pattern alternating with Huang Qing on the right is just a long-standing "symbol" of Tokyo University, which comes from the pattern drawn by Professor Masaichi Hoshino at the school board meeting in June of Showa's 23rd year. The pattern consists of two overlapping ginkgo leaves, one yellow and the other green. Ginkgo biloba is the most widely planted tree species on the campus of Tokyo University, standing along the street. Every autumn, yellow leaves are everywhere, covering the whole campus, so the golden ginkgo leaves symbolize the most beautiful side of Dongda University. The color of another ginkgo leaf comes from the traditional representative color of Dongda University-light green.
Just like the school emblem, even though the University of Tokyo is an old school with a history of 100 years, until today, Dongda has not been able to choose a recognized "school song"; In June 2004, the University of Tokyo set up a school song drafting committee to carry out the school song selection activities, and finally selected two songs, ただつ and とと, as "school songs" on different occasions.
The representative color of the University of Tokyo is "light cyan", which originated from a competition. Tokyo University and Kyoto University are to Japan, just as Oxford University and Cambridge University are to Britain, Dongda University and Kyoto University have maintained a long-term friendly relationship of common progress. A long time ago (the legend is 1920), in a rowing competition between two schools, the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University drew lots to decide which rowing boat to take, and the rowing boats drawn by the two schools were light cyan and dark cyan respectively. Since then, these two colors have become the representative colors of both sides, and finally gradually evolved into correction colors.