Meiji University

Meiji University is a private research university in Chiyoda, Tokyo, founded on 17 January 1881 as Meiji Law School by three young lawyers trained in French law, Kishimoto Tatsuo, Miyagi Kōzō and Yashiro Misao.明治大学是位于东京都千代田区的一所私立研究型大学，1881 年 1 月 17 日由岸本辰雄、宫城浩藏、矢代操三位研习法国法的年轻律师创办，初名明治法律学校。

It is one of the MARCH group of selective private universities in the Tokyo region and operates four campuses at Surugadai, Izumi, Ikuta and Nakano, with 10 undergraduate schools, 12 graduate schools and 4 professional graduate schools.明治大学是东京圈私立名校「MARCH」集团成员，在骏河台、和泉、生田与中野设有四个校区，下设 10 个本科学院、12 个研究生院与 4 个专业研究生院。

In May 2023 it enrolled 32,261 undergraduates and 2,635 postgraduates, making it Japan's most applied-to university with roughly 100,000 undergraduate applications a year, and it was placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.2023 年 5 月，该校在校本科生 32261 人、研究生 2635 人，每年本科申请约 10 万份，为日本报考人数最多的高校，并在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列入 1401+ 区间。

History

• The three founders had studied law in France and at the Ministry of Justice, and they opened the school when the new Meiji state was drafting a legal order and needed practitioners versed in French civil law.三位创办人曾留学法国并在司法省研习法律，他们在明治新政府编纂法律体系、急需通晓法国民法的人手之际开办了这所学校。
• In December 1886 the school moved from a temporary site near Yurakucho into a new building at Minamikagachō in Kanda, on the rise that became the Surugadai campus.1886 年 12 月，学校自有乐町附近的临时校舍迁入神田南甲贺町的新楼，所在的高地后来成为骏河台校区。
• In 1903 the institution adopted the name Meiji University, and two years later it reorganised itself as a legal foundation, the corporate form then used by Japanese private schools.1903 年，学校改称明治大学；两年后改组为财团法人，这是当时日本私立学校普遍采用的组织形式。
• A preparatory department called Keii Gakudō operated from 1904 until 1910, and the school added a women's division in 1929 and a liberal arts division in 1932, widening its intake beyond law.1904 年设立的预备教育机构「经纬学堂」一直办到 1910 年；学校又于 1929 年增设专门部女子部、1932 年增设专门部文科，招生范围超出法学之外。
• The first memorial building rose on the Surugadai campus in 1911, a second followed in 1912 and a third in 1928, giving the school a fixed architectural centre in central Tokyo.骏河台校区的第一代纪念楼于 1911 年落成，第二代与第三代分别于 1912 年与 1928 年建成，使学校在东京市中心有了固定的建筑核心。
• In April 1920 the government recognised Meiji as a university under the University Ordinance, and it began with faculties of law and commerce rather than the single law school of its founding.1920 年 4 月，政府依据《大学令》批准明治升格为大学，最初设法学院与商学院，而非仅有创校时的法律学校。
• The faculty of political science and economics was added in 1925, responding to the expansion of the franchise and the growth of journalism and public administration as graduate careers.政治经济学院于 1925 年设立，回应了选举权扩大以及新闻与行政管理成为毕业生职业去向的趋势。
• A division for Kōa studies, created in 1939 to train personnel for Japan's wartime expansion in Asia, was abolished in 1945 when the war ended.1939 年为培养日本在亚洲扩张所需人员而设立的兴亚科，于 1945 年战争结束时被废止。
• Two technical schools founded in the 1940s, the Tokyo Meiji Industrial Technical School of 1944 and the Meiji Agricultural Technical School of 1946, became the seedbeds of the later engineering and agriculture faculties.20 世纪 40 年代创办的两所专门学校——1944 年的东京明治工业专门学校与 1946 年的明治农业专门学校——成为后来工学院与农学院的前身。
• The university kept the old school's evening teaching through a second division, opened on 25 February 1949, four days after the daytime university, so that working students could study law and commerce at night.学校保留了旧校的夜间教学传统，于 1949 年 2 月 25 日、即日间部开学四天后设立第二部，让在职学生得以在夜间攻读法律与商学。
• Under the postwar education reform Meiji became a new-system university on 21 February 1949 with six faculties of law, commerce, political science and economics, letters, engineering and agriculture, adding an evening division on 25 February.战后学制改革中，明治于 1949 年 2 月 21 日成为新制大学，设法、商、政治经济、文、工、农六个学院，并于 2 月 25 日增设夜间部。
• The university opened a junior college in 1950, converted itself into an incorporated educational institution in 1951 and opened the Ikuta campus in Kawasaki the same year to house its growing science and engineering teaching.1950 年学校开设短期大学部；1951 年改组为学校法人，并于同年启用位于川崎的生田校区，以容纳不断扩大的理工科教学。
• The School of Business Administration was established in 1953, separating management teaching from the older commerce faculty and reflecting the demand for professional managers in postwar industry.1953 年设立经营学院，将管理学教学从原有的商学院中分出，回应了战后产业界对职业管理人才的需求。
• The university marked its centenary in 1980, completed a centenary library in 1984 and a centenary university hall in 1985, both on the Surugadai campus.学校于 1980 年举行建校一百周年庆典，1984 年建成百周年纪念图书馆，1985 年建成百周年纪念大学会馆，二者均位于骏河台校区。
• The School of Science and Technology was set up in 1989, consolidating engineering departments into a broader faculty that also taught mathematics and physics.理工学院于 1989 年设立，将原有工科各系整合为涵盖数学与物理的更大学院。
• Liberty Tower, a high-rise teaching building completed in 1998 for the 120th anniversary, became the new face of the Surugadai campus above the Kanda river.1998 年为建校 120 周年落成的「自由塔」高层教学楼，成为神田川畔骏河台校区的新地标。
• In 2004 the School of Information and Communication opened together with Academy Common, a teaching complex that also houses the Meiji University Museum, and in 2008 the School of Global Japanese Studies followed.2004 年信息交流学院成立，「学院共用楼」同时启用，楼内还设有明治大学博物馆；2008 年又设立国际日本学院。
• The Nakano campus opened in 2013 together with the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, extending the university westward along the Chuo line.中野校区于 2013 年启用，综合数理学院同时成立，使学校沿中央线向西扩展。
• Meiji was selected in 2014 for the Ministry of Education's Top Global University Project, a subsidy scheme for institutions expanding international student numbers and English-taught programmes.明治于 2014 年入选文部科学省的「超级国际化大学」计划，该计划旨在资助高校扩大留学生规模与英语授课项目。
• The university had announced a manga and anime museum in February 2009, and the Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture opened later that year as its first component.学校于 2009 年 2 月宣布筹建漫画与动画博物馆，其首个组成部分「米泽嘉博纪念图书馆」于同年稍后开放。

Academics

• The 10 undergraduate schools are Law, Commerce, Political Science and Economics, Arts and Letters, Science and Technology, Agriculture, Business Administration, Information and Communication, Global Japanese Studies and Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences.10 个本科学院分别为法学院、商学院、政治经济学院、文学院、理工学院、农学院、经营学院、信息交流学院、国际日本学院与综合数理学院。
• Twelve graduate schools cover law, commerce, political science and economics, business administration, arts and letters, informatics and communication, science and technology, agriculture and advanced mathematical sciences, among others.12 个研究生院涵盖法学、商学、政治经济学、经营学、文学、信息交流、理工学、农学与尖端数理科学等方向。
• Four professional graduate schools teach governance studies, global business, professional accountancy and law, the last of these being the Meiji Law School for the Japanese bar examination.4 个专业研究生院分别教授政务管理、全球商务、高级会计与法律，其中法科大学院直接对接日本司法考试。
• The student body in May 2023 comprised 32,261 undergraduates and 2,635 postgraduates, a total of 34,896, taught across four campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa.2023 年 5 月的学生总数为 34896 人，其中本科生 32261 人、研究生 2635 人，分布在东京与神奈川的四个校区。
• Meiji receives more undergraduate applications than any other Japanese university, and in the 2011 admissions cycle 113,905 candidates competed for 4,582 places, a ratio of 24.9 applicants per seat.明治的本科报考人数居日本高校之首，2011 年度共有 113905 人竞争 4582 个名额，平均每个名额 24.9 人。
• The School of Law offers six courses, including business law, international relations law, public service law and law and information, and its law school has historically ranked sixth in Japan for lawyers and prosecutors produced since 1945.法学院下设企业法、国际关系法、公务员法、法与信息等六个课程，其法科大学院自 1945 年以来培养的律师与检察官累计人数在日本位列第六。
• The School of Political Science and Economics comprises departments of political science, economics and local governance, while the School of Arts and Letters teaches literature, history and geography, and social psychology.政治经济学院下设政治学、经济学与地方自治三个学科，文学院则教授文学、历史地理与社会心理学。
• The School of Science and Technology teaches electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, mechanical engineering, precision engineering, architecture, industrial chemistry, information science, mathematics and physics.理工学院教授电气工程、电子与通信工程、机械工程、精密工程、建筑、工业化学、信息科学、数学与物理。
• The School of Commerce is divided into applied economics, marketing, finance and insurance, global business, management, accounting and creative business courses, while the School of Agriculture covers agriculture, agricultural chemistry, life sciences and food and environmental policy.商学院分为应用经济、市场营销、金融保险、全球商务、管理、会计与创意商务七个课程；农学院则设农业、农业化学、生命科学与食品环境政策等方向。
• Its Graduate School of Global Governance is taught entirely in English, one of several programmes created to attract students from outside Japan under the Top Global University Project.其全球政务管理研究生院全部以英语授课，是「超级国际化大学」计划下为吸引海外学生而设的多个项目之一。
• A 2004 survey by the Nikkei newspaper placed Meiji 37th among Japanese universities in engineering research, and the university has filed the 62nd highest number of patents in the country.2004 年《日本经济新闻》的调查将明治的工学研究列为日本第 37 位，其专利申请量在日本高校中位列第 62。
• Meiji University Museum, opened in 2004, combines the university's criminal justice, archaeology and history collections under one roof in the Academy Common building.明治大学博物馆于 2004 年开放，将学校的刑事司法、考古与历史藏品集中陈列于学院共用楼内。
• The Yoshihiro Yonezawa Memorial Library of Manga and Subculture, opened in 2009, preserves the collection of the manga critic Yonezawa Yoshihiro and supports research on Japanese comics.米泽嘉博纪念图书馆于 2009 年开放，保存漫画评论家米泽嘉博的旧藏，并支持日本漫画研究。
• The 1984 centenary library on the Surugadai campus serves as the main library, with branch libraries on the Izumi, Ikuta and Nakano campuses.骏河台校区 1984 年建成的百周年纪念图书馆为主馆，和泉、生田与中野三个校区另设分馆。
• Employment outcomes are a stated strength: in a 2010 Weekly Economist ranking Meiji graduates placed 35th among 400 major companies, and the university ranks sixth in Japan for alumni who are executives of listed firms.就业表现是校方强调的优势：2010 年《周刊东洋经济》的排名中，明治毕业生在 400 家主要企业的就业率列第 35 位，其校友担任上市公司高管的人数在日本列第六。
• Meiji graduates also rank fifth in Japan among successful certified public accountant examinees and ninth among those passing the architect registration examination.明治毕业生通过注册会计师考试的人数在日本列第五，通过建筑师注册考试的人数列第九。
• Teaching is spread over four campuses by discipline, with law, commerce, political science, letters and business based at Surugadai and the sciences, engineering and agriculture at Ikuta.教学按学科分布在四个校区：法、商、政治经济、文与经营设在骏河台，理学、工学与农学设在生田。

Campus

• The Surugadai campus occupies the Kanda-Surugadai rise in Chiyoda ward, a short walk from Ochanomizu station and beside the Kanda river.骏河台校区位于千代田区神田骏河台高地，距御茶之水站步行可达，紧邻神田川。
• Its neighbour is Jimbōchō, Tokyo's best-known quarter for second-hand books, and the campus has long drawn students into the bookshops and cafés of that district.校区毗邻东京最著名的旧书街神保町，学生长期流连于该区的书店与咖啡馆之间。
• Liberty Tower, completed in 1998 with more than twenty floors, houses classrooms, the library and administrative offices and dominates the Surugadai skyline.1998 年落成、逾二十层的自由塔集中了教室、图书馆与行政办公空间，是骏河台天际线的主体。
• Academy Common, opened in 2004, adds large lecture halls and the university museum, and its glass frontage faces the Kanda river embankment.2004 年启用的学院共用楼增添了大型阶梯教室与大学博物馆，其玻璃幕墙正对神田川河堤。
• The Izumi campus in Suginami ward serves first- and second-year students with a liberal arts curriculum before they move to their departmental campuses.位于杉并区的和泉校区承担一二年级的通识课程，学生此后转入各专业所在校区。
• The Ikuta campus in Tama-ku, Kawasaki, opened in 1951 and provides the laboratories and experimental fields needed by the science, engineering and agriculture faculties.生田校区位于川崎市多摩区，1951 年启用，为理工与农学院提供实验室与试验田。
• The Nakano campus, opened in 2013 near Nakano station, hosts the School of Global Japanese Studies and the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences in a compact urban building.中野校区 2013 年启用，邻近中野站，以一栋紧凑的都市教学楼容纳国际日本学院与综合数理学院。
• The university's museum and archive holdings include one of Japan's largest collections of criminal justice material, assembled for the training of lawyers and prosecutors.该校博物馆与档案藏品中包括日本规模最大的刑事司法资料之一，最初用于律师与检察官的培养。
• All four campuses sit on rail lines into central Tokyo, with Surugadai served by Ochanomizu and Jimbōchō stations and Ikuta by Ikuta station on the Odakyu line.四个校区都位于通往东京市中心的轨道交通沿线，骏河台由御茶之水站与神保町站服务，生田则由小田急线生田站到达。

Reputation

• Meiji was placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the final open-ended group of that edition.明治在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列入 1401+ 区间，为该版榜单最后的开放区间。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 placed Meiji in the 2001+ band, and the 2026-2027 U.S. News global list ranked it 2,175th.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将明治列入 2001+ 区间，2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球榜单则将其列在第 2175 位。
• Meiji did not appear in the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, and its regional standing is better captured by the QS Asia ranking, where it placed 354th in 2025.明治未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名；其地区位次更宜参考 QS 亚洲排名，2025 年位列第 354。
• Toyo Keizai's "Truly Strong Universities" ranking placed Meiji 19th in 2009 and 26th in 2010, reflecting its scale and entrance difficulty rather than research output alone.《东洋经济》的「真正强大的大学」排名于 2009 年将明治列为第 19 位、2010 年列第 26 位，衡量的是规模与入学难度而非单纯科研产出。
• The Meiji Law School is among the strongest in Japan: its graduates passed the bar examination at the 14th-highest rate in 2009 and the 20th in 2010, and its cumulative output of lawyers ranks sixth since the war.明治法科大学院在日本属最强之列：2009 年司法考试合格人数列第 14 位、2010 年列第 20 位，战后累计培养的律师人数位列第六。
• Eduniversal rated Meiji fourth in Japan among business schools with national strength, and its graduates rank sixth in the country for members of parliament.Eduniversal 将明治评为日本第四强的商学院；其校友当选国会议员的人数在日本位列第六。
• As a MARCH university Meiji is grouped with Aoyama Gakuin, Rikkyo, Chuo and Hosei as one of the five selective private universities of the Tokyo region.作为 MARCH 成员，明治与青山学院、立教、中央、法政并列为东京圈五所难关私立大学。
• With 34,896 students in May 2023 Meiji is one of Japan's largest private universities by enrolment, a scale that sustains both its applicant pool and its alumni network.2023 年 5 月在校生 34896 人，使明治成为日本注册规模最大的私立大学之一，这一体量既支撑了其报考人数，也支撑了校友网络。
• Its alumni include two prime ministers, Takeo Miki and Tomiichi Murayama, 48 national politicians, 115 company presidents and 264 artists, according to the university's own count.据校方统计，其校友中有三木武夫与村山富市两位首相、48 位国会议员、115 位企业社长与 264 位艺术家。
• By 2021, 270 Meiji alumni had competed at the Olympic Games and won 40 medals, 14 of them gold, a record few Japanese universities can match.截至 2021 年，共有 270 名明治校友参加奥运会并赢得 40 枚奖牌，其中金牌 14 枚，这一纪录在日本高校中少有比肩者。

Student life

• The founding spirit is summed up as "Rights and Liberty, Independence and Self-Government", a slogan coined by the founders that still appears on university publications.建学精神概括为「权利自由、独立自治」，这一由创办人提出的口号至今仍见于学校出版物。
• Meiji competes in the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League, and its annual baseball and rugby fixtures against Waseda University draw some of the largest crowds in Japanese student sport.明治参加东京六大学棒球联盟，其与早稻田大学每年举行的棒球与橄榄球对抗赛，是日本学生体育中观众最多的赛事之一。
• Judo is another traditional strength, and the university's martial arts clubs train in dedicated halls on the Surugadai and Ikuta campuses.柔道是另一项传统强项，学校的武道社团在骏河台与生田校区的专用场馆训练。
• The Meiji University Festival, held each autumn, brings departmental exhibitions, guest lectures and food stalls to the Surugadai and Ikuta campuses.每年秋季举行的明大祭把各院系展览、讲座与饮食摊位带到骏河台与生田校区。
• Manga and subculture form an unusual part of campus life, anchored by the Yonezawa memorial library and the university's research centre for manga studies.漫画与亚文化构成校园生活中别具一格的部分，其核心是米泽纪念图书馆与校内的漫画研究中心。
• The university museum mounts public exhibitions from its criminal justice and archaeology collections, and its holdings are used in the teaching of law and history.大学博物馆以刑事司法与考古藏品举办公开展览，这些藏品也用于法学与历史学教学。
• Meiji's four campuses give it an unusually dispersed student geography, with first-year students at Izumi and upper-year science students at Ikuta in Kawasaki.四个校区使学生分布格外分散：一年级在和泉，高年级理工科学生则在川崎的生田。
• Because Surugadai sits between Ochanomizu and Jimbōchō, students can reach the bookshops, music stores and ramen shops of Kanda on foot between classes.骏河台夹在御茶之水与神保町之间，学生课间步行即可到达神田的书店、乐器行与拉面店。
• The university counts 380 professional athletes among its alumni, a figure driven by its baseball, rugby, judo, swimming and football clubs.校方统计校友中有 380 名职业运动员，这一数字主要来自棒球、橄榄球、柔道、游泳与足球社团。

Notable people

• Kishimoto Tatsuo, Miyagi Kōzō and Yashiro Misao, the three lawyers who founded the school in 1881, all trained in French law and taught the first cohorts themselves.1881 年创办学校的岸本辰雄、宫城浩藏与矢代操三位律师均研习法国法，并亲自为最早几届学生授课。
• Takeo Miki, prime minister from 1974 to 1976, and Tomiichi Murayama, prime minister from 1994 to 1996, are the university's two heads of government.1974 至 1976 年任首相的三木武夫与 1994 至 1996 年任首相的村山富市，是该校出身的两位政府首脑。
• Zhou Enlai, later premier of the People's Republic of China, studied in Japan and attended Meiji briefly in 1917 and 1918 before returning to China.后来担任中华人民共和国总理的周恩来曾留学日本，于 1917 至 1918 年间在明治短期就读，随后回国。
• Wu Tieh-cheng, foreign minister and mayor of Shanghai in the Republic of China, and Hsieh Chieh-shih, the first foreign minister of Manchukuo, are listed among early Chinese-speaking alumni.曾任中华民国外交部长与上海市长的吴铁城，以及伪满洲国首任外交总长谢介石，都被列为早期华语校友。
• Mibuchi Yoshiko, Japan's first female judge, graduated from Meiji's women's division, and the university also produced some of the country's first practising women lawyers.日本首位女法官三渊嘉子毕业于明治的女子部，该校还培养出日本最早一批执业女律师中的几位。
• Takeshi Kitano, the film director and comedian, studied engineering at Meiji but left before graduating, and the actor Ken Takakura graduated from the same university.身兼导演与谐星的北野武曾在明治攻读工程学但未毕业；演员高仓健则是该校毕业生。
• Senichi Hoshino, who managed the Hanshin Tigers and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles to league titles, and the footballer Yuto Nagatomo, a long-serving Japan international, are alumni.曾率领阪神虎与东北乐天金鹫夺冠的星野仙一，以及长期入选日本国家队的足球运动员长友佑都，都是该校校友。
• Sohn Kee-chung, the marathon runner who won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, studied at Meiji, as did the mountaineer Naomi Uemura, the first Japanese to summit Everest in 1970.1936 年柏林奥运会马拉松冠军孙基祯曾在明治就读；1970 年成为首位登顶珠峰的日本登山家植村直己同样是该校校友。
• Moriteru Ueshiba, the third dōshu of aikido, and Masaaki Hatsumi, founder of the Bujinkan martial arts school, both studied at Meiji, which has long been a centre of Japanese martial arts.合气道第三代道主植芝守央与「武神馆」武道流派创始人初见良明都曾在明治就读，该校长期是日本武道的重要据点。
• Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a U.S. senator from Colorado, studied at Meiji, and Gibril Ibrahim, finance minister of Sudan, is also counted among its international alumni.美国科罗拉多州联邦参议员本·奈特霍斯·坎贝尔曾就读于明治；苏丹财政部长吉布里尔·易卜拉欣也被列为该校国际校友。
• Yū Aku, the lyricist and novelist who wrote thousands of song lyrics, and Kan Kikuchi, the novelist who founded the magazine Bungeishunjū, both spent time at Meiji.创作了数千首歌词的词作家兼小说家阿久悠，以及创办《文艺春秋》杂志的小说家菊池宽，都曾在明治求学。
• The university counts 115 company presidents among its graduates, including Tom Yoda, former chairman of the Avex Group and a member of the university council.校方统计校友中有 115 位企业社长，其中包括爱贝克思集团前董事长、曾任学校评议员的依田巽。
• Yoshihiro Yonezawa, the manga critic and co-founder of the Comiket convention, taught and collected at Meiji, and the manga library that bears his name opened in 2009.漫画评论家、 Comic Market 同人展共同创办人米泽嘉博曾在明治任教并捐赠藏书，以他命名的漫画图书馆于 2009 年开放。