The school emblem combines the symbolic picture of the camphor tree of Kyoto University standing in front of the bell tower, with the Chinese character "University" as tracer element. The latter can be traced back to before World War II (then the institution was called Kyoto Imperial University). The original badge design was designed around 1950 by Nana Ogawa Koichiro, an employee of the General Affairs Department of Kyoto University.

It is used as a symbol of university administration, mainly for stationery such as printed matter and stationery. Later, with the increasingly active international participation of Kyoto University, it was emphasized that an official symbol representing the whole institution was needed. A group of design experts designed a logo based on Nana Ogawa's works. The final design was awarded to the university board in 1990 1 1 and was widely used in the public relations materials of institutions.

Kyoto University, referred to as Kyoto University for short, is the world's top comprehensive research-oriented national university, headquartered in Jingzuo District, Kyoto City, Japan. It has won 1 1 Nobel Prize, and it is the university that has won the most Nobel Prize in Asian countries. 186 1 was originally Kyoto Imperial University, and it was officially renamed "Kyoto University" after World War II.

Unlike other universities in Japan, Kyoto University advocates a free and independent research and learning atmosphere, and advocates individualized development of students on the basis of "self-respect". The school implements student autonomy, and the academic atmosphere of "where there is a will, there is a way" is one of the characteristics of Kyoto University.

Exchange and cooperation of Kyoto University

Opening to the outside world and attaching importance to international exchanges are also important reasons for the increasing international popularity of Kyoto University. Kyoto University sends nearly 100 graduate students to study abroad every year. As for teachers, they go abroad for research, inspection, lectures and international conferences, with more than1.5000 person-times per year. The school encourages individuals, departments, majors, research and other forms of foreign exchanges and cooperation, including inviting foreign scholars to bring their subjects to Peking University for long-term or short-term cooperative research.

By May 1990, Kyoto University had received 764 international students, 600 visiting scholars and researchers from 55 countries and regions in the world, and signed inter-school exchange agreements with Tsinghua University, Peking University, Tongji University, Wuhan University and Fudan University in China. On July 3, 20 18, a delegation from the Institute of Advanced Studies of Kyoto University visited the College of Materials Science and Technology of Shanghai University of Science and Technology. The two sides signed a memorandum of academic cooperation and held a joint academic seminar.