Hitotsubashi university is located in Tokyo National City, Japan, and hitotsubashi university is one of the earliest universities in Japan. It is a comprehensive university with pure social sciences, a world-renowned top research-oriented national university, and is known as "Harvard in Asia".

Hitotsubashi university offers only four majors (Economics, Law, Business and Sociology), and it is the only small-scale elite university specializing in humanities and social sciences. It is a member of Japan's top national university group, similar in nature to the London School of Economics and Political Science. Hitotsubashi university is recognized as an excellent Japanese business school. Its strength in the fields of humanities and social sciences such as law, international relations, sociology and linguistics is also recognized as the top three in Japan.