Nature: public and comprehensive universities
Venue: Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Established: 1897
Composition: 10 department, 15 research department.
School motto: self-respect, self-respect and independence
Historical review
Kyoto University is the second national university in Japan after Tokyo University. 1892, 23 members of parliament proposed in a motion to the National Assembly that Japan has only one national university, which is not competitive, which is not conducive to running schools and cultivating students. At that time, it was suggested to build a university in Xijing Kyoto. 1897 was passed and the university was born. At that time, it was called Kyoto Imperial University.
When the university was first established, there was only one branch of science and engineering, with 6 majors giving 2/kloc-0 lectures and less than 500 students. Hiroshi Kimura was the first president. A few years later, three university branches were added: law, medicine and liberal arts. At this time, there are five university branches in the school. Four years later, a new university decree was issued and the branch school was renamed the department. The original law and economics of the law department were separated, and at the same time, they were upgraded to a department. After several years of hard work, the Ministry of Agriculture and some research institutions have been established one after another, and the school scale has been greatly developed, and the number of students has doubled.
After the war, according to the new education law, all the new systems were implemented, and "Imperial University" was deleted. Empire? The second word is to eliminate the harm and influence of militarism on Kyoto University, including co-education, cleaning up the teaching staff, canceling some inappropriate lectures, adding departments of education, pharmacy and some research institutes, and the postgraduate education has been greatly developed and opened to the outside world. In this way, Kyoto University has become a national comprehensive university with complete disciplines and huge scale, second only to Tokyo University in Japan.
The present style
The research conditions are unique.
The characteristics of Kyoto University can also be fully seen from the institutional setup and scientific research organization. Many research institutes and centers are unique in China. Advanced equipment and excellent research environment provide unique conditions for scientific research, and researchers are like a duck to water, so they are very influential in research topics and research results in Japan.
In basic theoretical research, Kyoto University is ahead of other universities in Japan. The Institute of Basic Physics, with Hideki Yukawa as its first director, has become one of the centers of theoretical research on basic physics in the world, covering astrophysics, elementary particles, nucleus, universe, statistical physics, physical properties and many other aspects.
In the study of chemical reaction theory, Kenichi Fukui's quantum chemical boundary orbit theory has been applied to chemical engineering and won the 1987 Nobel Prize. The research of mathematical analysis is connected with natural science and social science. It is more and more common to study many theoretical problems and realize the programming of computer processing with the help of mathematical models. Progress has also been made in virus research, carcinogenesis and genetic theory.
In the study of humanities, Kyoto University also attaches great importance to having its own characteristics. In the history of Kyoto University, there have been many world-famous outstanding scholars, some of whom have also won the Japanese Cultural Medal. Such as Japanese philosopher Nishida Ikutaro and legal scholar Sasaki. Kaizuka Shigeki, who studies the history of China, and Ji Chuan, who studies China literature.
The Kyoto school is obsessed with achievement.
Although Kyoto University and Tokyo University are both national universities in Japan, their traditions and educational goals are quite different. The University of Tokyo focuses on cultivating talents for governing the country; Kyoto University is good at training scientists. In scientific research, there are many talents and many achievements, so it is called? Cradle of scientists? .
What we are particularly proud of is that in the 38 years from 1949 to 1987, among the seven Nobel Prize winners in Japan, Kyoto University accounted for four (some people say four and a half). There are numerous awards such as the Japanese Cultural Medal and the Japanese Academy of Sciences Award, and these achievements are inseparable from their fine traditions.
Kyoto University has always paid attention to high academic standards. Since its establishment, it has been a tradition that reason is more important than literature. Among the departments, research institutes and teaching and research centers of the whole school, science has obviously occupied a dominant position, thus forming a distinct? Kyoto school? .
That's how people used to describe it? Kyoto school? :? Even if ordinary people think this is a trivial matter, professors at Kyoto University will be interested, and as long as it is academic, they will do it without hesitation? . This school was first initiated by Ikutaro Nishida, a famous philosopher in the Department of Literature of Kyoto University, and his disciples Tian Bianyuan and Miki Qing. The original intention was that they had unique views on the study of Japanese philosophy, and later Japanese academic circles extended to Kyoto University for graduation? Don't ask reality, just ask knowledge? A group of people. Is it their kind? Interest? And then what? Perseverance? It makes Kyoto University the cradle of scientists.
campus life
Kyoto University is located in the ancient capital of Japan and has a long history and culture of Japan. The campus is far away from the political center of the capital and the bustling big cities, preparing an ideal place for scholars to concentrate on their studies; Beautiful campus natural environment; The kind in Kyoto? Are you at ease? The unique academic and humanistic environment is inseparable from the fruitful achievements and talents of Kyoto University. The learning and research environment created by Kyoto University for students is also commendable.
More respect for students' autonomy than the University of Tokyo.
Kyoto University has a fine tradition of running schools independently since ancient times. At the beginning of its establishment, Hiroshi Kimura, the first president, emphasized that Kyoto University must have its own characteristics. Respect students' independent spirit more than Dongda University? .
19 13, protesting against the headmaster's arbitrariness? Yanagisawa incident? , leading to the emergence of the principal election system; 1928, the expulsion of Professor Longchuan from the law department caused a boiling of the whole school, protesting against militarism trampling on democracy and persecuting patriotic teachers. In order to seek the truth, we must strive for the right of free research. Only with this right can we ensure the implementation of free study style.