University of Tsukuba
筑波大学
Motto	None
Established	October, 1973 (Originally in 1872)
Type	Public (National)
President	Yoichi Iwasaki
Staff	4,129[1]
Students	16,584[2]
Undergraduates	10,211
Postgraduates	6,373
Location	Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Campus	Urban
Mascot	None
Website	www.tsukuba.ac.jp

The University of Tsukuba (筑波大学, Tsukuba daigaku^?) is located in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture in the Kantō region of Japan. The University has 28 college clusters and schools with a total of around 15,000 students (in 2003).

The current university was established in October, 1973. A forerunner of this university was Tokyo University of Education (東京教育大学, Tōkyō kyōiku daigaku^?) originally founded in 1872 as one of the oldest universities in Japan, Tokyo Shihan Gakko.

The university is ranked one of the top Asian universities (9th to 17th) in the “Academic Ranking of World Universities” and is ranked 102-150 in the world. [1]. Furthermore, Global University Ranking places the university 41st globally.^[3]

The University of Tsukuba has had several Nobel Prize winners so far, namely Leo Esaki, Hideki Shirakawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.

The University of Tsukuba is famous in the research of physical education, physics and economics.^{[citation needed]}

On July 11, 1991 Japanese translator Hitoshi Igarashi was stabbed to death at the University for translating Salman Rushdie's most famous novel The Satanic Verses.

In October 2002, the University of Tsukuba merged with the University of Library and Information Science (ULIS, 図書館情報大学, Toshokan jōhō daigaku^?). The School of Library and Information Science and the Graduate School of Library and Information - Media Studies were established.

In May 2008, the Tokyo International Conference on African Development became an opportunity for the African Development Bank (AfDB) and universities in Japan to promote partnership on higher education, science and technology. Donald Kaberuka, the President of AfDB and the President of Tsukuba University signed a memorandum of understanding during the three-day event.^[4]

Contents 1 Points of interest 2 Famous alumni 2.1 Politicians 2.2 Academics 2.3 Businessmen 2.4 Athletes 2.5 Entertainers 2.6 Artists 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] Points of interest

• Tsukuba Botanical Garden

[edit] Famous alumni

[edit] Politicians

• Kiyoko Ono　(70th Chair of National Public Safety Commission)
• Taizō Sugimura (dropout)

[edit] Academics

• Yukihiro Matsumoto - free software programmer. Chief designer of the Ruby programming language.
• John Maeda - Current President of the Rhode Island School of Design

[edit] Businessmen

• Yutaka Emura - President of Emurasoft, developer of EmEditor text editor.
• Kota Matsuda - CEO of Tully's Coffee Japan
• Daiyuu Nobori - CEO of Softether

[edit] Athletes

• Sawao Kato - Gymnastic, 8 Olympic gold medalist
• Masami Ihara - Football player
• Masashi Nakayama - Football player
• Sota Hirayama (dropout) - Football player
• Toshiya Fujita - Football player
• Takanori Yoshioka - Athlete (Tokyo University of Education)
• Miwako Motoyoshi - Synchronized swimming, Olympic bronze medalist
• Toshinobu Kawai - Short track speed skating, Olympic bronze medalist
• Hirotaka Okada - Judo, Olympic bronze medalist
• Yoko Sakagami - Judo, Olympic bronze medalist
• Chiyo Tateno - Judo, Olympic bronze medalist
• Yoko Tanabe - Judo, Olympic silver medalist
• Noriko Narazaki (Sugawara) - Judo, Olympic silver and bronze medalist
• Fumiko Esaki - Judo, Olympic silver medalist
• Ayumi Tanimoto - Judo, Olympic gold medalist
• Midori Shintani - Judo, World judo championship gold medalist

[edit] Entertainers

• Masayoshi Okumura - Voice Percussion of a cappella band Rag Fair
• Riyoko Ikeda - Mangaka (Tokyo University of Education/dropout)
• Rin Inumaru - Mangaka
• Ryoko Nagata - Seiyu
• Miki Ito - Seiyu
• Shunichi Miyamoto - Musician

[edit] Artists

• Toshio Iwai - Media artist and game designer
• Nobumichi Tosa - Media artist of the Maywa Denki art unit

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• www.tsukuba.ac.jp
• MBA-IB programme

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Coordinates: 36°06′41″N 140°06′14″E / 36.11143°N 140.10383°E / 36.11143; 140.10383