Tohoku University is a Japanese national university in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan's Tohoku Region. It was the third Imperial University in Japan, founded in 1907, and was chosen by the Japanese government as a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project. Tohoku University was ranked first in Japan's University Ranking by Times Higher Education in 2020 and 2021.

Tohoku University was one of 13 universities chosen by the Japanese government in 2009 to contribute to international higher education, and the university launched a series of degree programs that are primarily taught in English. Currently, the school has four main campuses, including Aobayama, Katahira, Kawauchi, and Seiryo. All four campuses have extremely convenient transportation systems. The system of libraries and research rooms is invested with high-tech applications. Students are also provided with common rooms for group work.

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The Tokyo Institute of Technology is a national research institution in the Greater Tokyo area. Established in 1881, it is the country's largest higher education school specializing in science and technology. The institution is divided into six schools, each having more than 40 departments and research areas. Especially, the Tokyo Institute of Technology produced a Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry Hideki Shirakawa Ph.D.

The Tokyo Institute of Technology Library in Ookayama is the major library. It is the largest science and technology library in Japan, founded in 1882. It now holds 674,000 volumes and 2,500 publications, including 1,600 foreign academic journals; it has the most international research collections in Japan. Every year, it distributes approximately 7,000 registered electronic journals. As a result, the library has been designated as a 'Centre of Foreign Journals' by the Japanese government for its remarkable national and worldwide significance.

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Founded in 1877, the University of Tokyo is Japan's first national university. It contains ten faculties, fifteen graduate schools, eleven affiliated research institutes (including the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology), thirteen university-wide centers, three primary libraries, and three institutes for advanced study.

Students are educated in three main campuses in Hongo, Komaba, and Kashiwa, although the university has facilities all across Japan. The university offers an unusual course structure in that students spend their first two years on one site pursuing a liberal arts degree before moving to another campus to pursue their chosen major. In addition, the university has a unique museum, which is a special system of museums covering many fields, from paleontology to anthropology. The school has about 8.1 million books and magazines, many of which are rare editions.

As of 2021, the University of Tokyo's alumni, faculty members and researchers include seventeen Prime Ministers, 18 Nobel Prize laureates, four Pritzker Prize laureates, five astronauts, and a Fields Medalist.

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Kyoto University was established in 1897. It is the second oldest institution in Japan and one of the erstwhile Imperial Universities. Kyoto University has around 22,000 students, ten faculties, eighteen graduate schools, thirteen research institutes, and twenty-one research and teaching centers. It has a regular high ranking in Asia.

Kyoto University portrays itself as an academic school that fosters a "freedom spirit." Among its teachers and graduates are eleven Nobel Laureates and two Fields Medalists. The university is widely regarded as the birthplace of the philosophical movement known as the Kyoto School.

Kyoto University has three campuses: Yoshida, Uji, and Katsura. The Kyoto University Library is Japan's second-largest academic library, with about 7 million volumes.

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Osaka University, which was founded in 1931, has grown to become one of Japan's major educational institutions. It is divided into 11 undergraduate faculties and 16 graduate schools. Six research institutions, four libraries, and two university hospitals are also part of the university. It is regarded as one of Japan's most selective universities that has one of the most challenging entrance exams.

The school has always been evaluated as one of the leading medical and technology training places in Asia and has always developed until now. Osaka University has 3 campuses, including Toyonaka, Suita and Minoh. Osaka is one of the universities that train the most talents for the country and the world. Up to now, Osaka University has many alumni holding important positions.

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