Toho University
東邦大学 | |
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| Motto | 自然・生命・人間 (Nature・Life・Man) |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1925 |
| Endowment | N/A |
| Chancellor | Tsugunori Aoki |
Academic staff | 705（2005） |
| Students | 4,533（2005） |
| Undergraduates | 4,079（2005） |
| Postgraduates | 454（2005） |
| 154（2005） | |
| Address | 5-21-16 Ōmorinishi,Ota-ku,Tokyo 143-8540,Japan , , , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | http://www.toho-u.ac.jp/english/index.html |
Toho University (東邦大学, Tōhō Daigaku) is a university in Tokyo, Japan. Drs. Yutaka and Susumu Nukada founded the Imperial Women's Medical College at Ōmori,Tokyo, the location of the Faculty of Medicine at present, with their own money in 1925 and then they established the Imperial Women's Medical and Pharmaceutical College and the Imperial Women's College of Science. They aimed at improving scientific education for women in such fields as medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences and science while developing healthy and humanistic mind in them. After World War II the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Faculty of Science moved to Funabashi, Chiba. With the reform of the Japanese school system in 1950, Toho University became a coeducational institution, focusing on natural sciences, that had the Faculties of Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Science.
Noted alumni
- Takeshi Morishita (physician)
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